Well, it has been a week since the Heller decision hit and I have yet to see any blood running in the streets. Though the froth created by the wailing and gnashing of teeth is sort of pink.
It looks as though the DC City Council is just now getting around to obeying the Supreme Court’s wishes and voting to rescind the ban
With the unanimous support of his 12 colleagues, Phil Mendelson introduced a bill that would end the city’s handgun ban and make it legal for residents to keep firearms in their homes without requirements that trigger locks be used or that they be disassembled.
Mendelson’s bill would still require that guns be kept unloaded and disabled, but it would offer an exception for gun owners who say the firearm is present in the home for immediate self-defense.
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The self-defense exception would also extend to people keeping a firearm in their place of business.
Since I’m certain that some overzealous police/prosecutor team is going to go after someone for having all of their firearms assembled and a couple of them loaded (say, a sensible handgun/shotgun combo), I guess we get to go back to court to find out how many firearms people are allowed to keep assembled and/or loaded, per the Bill of Rights.
In other DC news, TPM blogger, Brian Beutler was shot while being mugged for his cellphone. We here at RNS wish him a full and speedy recovery.
John Aravosis, who just the other day tried to say that muggers don’t want to hurt their victims, knows the neighborhood.
The neighborhood he was shot in, like a 5 minute walk from me, has an ongoing gang war on the very corner he was shot. It’s been going on for years. And years. And years. But DC is such an inept city, that all we hear about is how fighting crime is hard work. Sound familiar? I’ve looked at condos right next to where he was shot. $400,000 for a one bedroom. I laugh when I see places like that, because I know there’s a gang war going on about 100 feet away. And now this would be our second mugging-shooting we’ve had in the last month or so.
But to talk to these folks, they cannot see why arming oneself would be a wise idea in a place such as the one described above.
Hell, these gangs would have to hope that The Wife’s better nature calmed me down enough to not go Banger-Hunting. It’s been more than a few years, but I still remember the necessary skillsets.
Check out the comments to that post. It would be nice if the leftists could figure out that the crime rate in DC has been horrifying since the early 1970’s and that their attempts to lay this at the feet of Bush is just stupid namecalling.
Too bad there isn’t such an indictable offense as “contempt of the spirit of a Supreme Court ruling”. If there was, I’d pay my own good money to fly to DC and arrest Mayor Fenty.