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Mike
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Posted: Tue Feb 24th, 2009 04:05 am |
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http://www.examiner.com/x-2782-DC-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m2d23-No-right-to-arms-no-vote-in-Congress
SNIP
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According to the Washington Post, Congress is poised this week to pass legislation giving the District of Columbia a voting Representative in Congress.
Kinda' funny that the DC Council urges Congress create a Constitutional right to Congressional representation out of thin air while thumbing its nose at the Supreme Court's Heller decision regarding the enumerated Constitutional right to bear arms by enacting onerous registration requirements and new bans on scary looking rifles and pistols not approved for sale in California.
It's time Congress put its foot down and preempt the DC City Council on gun control. In almost every state, . . .
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WhatTimeIsIt?
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Posted: Tue Feb 24th, 2009 04:43 am |
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How could anyone defend that bill as constitutional? :/
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richlub
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Posted: Tue Feb 24th, 2009 05:01 am |
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Last edited on Wed Mar 18th, 2009 05:14 am by richlub
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SlackwareRobert
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Posted: Tue Feb 24th, 2009 09:20 pm |
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What does the constitution have to do with washington.
As lng as it means votes to further socialism, and spend money then
the ends justify the means. Guess we need an appology from RBG
for not dieing as we had our hopes up for.
Can you just picture the type of crook would get nominated to replace her
by the yahoos running things now.
I would rather take my chances that her brain is fried and half the time she
will goof and rule correctly.
I am curious if Maryland would still except DC back into thier state, or are they
so far gone now even they don't want them.
Does anyone know what "Stimulous" DC got?
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Alexcabbie
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Posted: Wed Feb 25th, 2009 07:23 am |
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There has been talk from time to time of ceding DC to either Md or Va but in that regard DC is like "Moosylvania" in the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show: A mini-civil war could erupt if it was even tried.
When Barry was mayor the DC City Council resembled the old "Amos N' Andy" show, and I am not making this up one bit. I kept waiting for them to start a chinchilla ranch to raise money. They had lots of lunatic candidates for Mayor every election, including a woman from the "Socialist Worker's Party" who as a campaign pledge promised to get the US out of El Salvador (needless to say she had THAT exactly backwards) and a homeless guy who lived in his pickup truck who pledged to "clean the city up"...... by requiring "everybody" to "take a bath with soap". Again, I am not making one single word of this up.
The late David Clarke, who made a big show of coasting in to trouble spots on his bike (from the top of 16th street and then taking a cab back uphill after the cameras were off him) once stood at a table full of guns from a "buy back" and with a maniacal look in his eyes smashed them with a hammer. Yeah, Dave. Send those guns to the electric chair.
'Course D.C. wants to keep guns out of the hands of felons, so much so that back in the mid-80s they hired a bunch of felons as COPS!! And this was only discovered after it was revealed that some of them were working security for stash houses and alerting dealers as to the timing of raids and other narc ops. I knew a guy who became a D.C. cop back in 1974, and ran into him when he was worrking robbery in 1990. He said: "You know, i've been on the best police force in the United States, and I have been on the most effed up police in the United States, and I've only been on ONE police force!!"
1974 was the year "home rule" took effect. And now the clowns it has spawned want to "help" pass legislation in the National legislature??
Words fail me......FIE ON THAT!
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Armed
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Posted: Sat Feb 28th, 2009 04:31 pm |
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Alexcabbie wrote: There has been talk from time to time of ceding DC to either Md or Va but in that regard DC is like "Moosylvania" in the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show: A mini-civil war could erupt if it was even tried.
Yeah, I'll bet the fight we be over NOT being forced to take them! 
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soloban
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Posted: Sat Feb 28th, 2009 05:36 pm |
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Armed wrote: Alexcabbie wrote: There has been talk from time to time of ceding DC to either Md or Va but in that regard DC is like "Moosylvania" in the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show: A mini-civil war could erupt if it was even tried.
Yeah, I'll bet the fight we be over NOT being forced to take them!
Agreed...we're quite happy with our nice spread of land south of the Potomac.
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adam40cal
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Posted: Sun Mar 1st, 2009 07:13 pm |
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Clearly Unconstitutional!
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Alexcabbie
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Posted: Sun Mar 1st, 2009 11:22 pm |
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adam40cal wrote: Clearly Unconstitutional!
When has that ever stopped the Demon-Rat libs?
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Toymaker
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 01:48 am |
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Obama's going to sign it anyway so why not include the overturning of DC's stupid gun laws.
The main part of the bill will likely be challenged in court so there's a chance that they'll end up shooting themselves in the foot with their precious gun restrictions being stripped in the process.
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Sonora Rebel
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 05:31 pm |
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This is from Senator Vitter (LA)"
Dear Friend,
Yesterday was a great day for the 2nd Amendment and our Constitution.
I coauthored and helped pass through the Senate the 2nd Amendment Enforcement Act, an amendment to the DC Voting Rights Act that will ensure law abiding DC residents are now able to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights as upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller.
DC residents would be able to protect themselves and their property without undue interference by the DC government that has denied their constitutional rights for decades and, even after a clear Supreme Court decision, continues to burden citizens with unreasonable restrictions and registration requirements.
Law abiding citizens in our country deserve the right to keep and bear arms without interference from politicians and bureaucrats who want to trample on our 2nd Amendment rights
Rest assured I will continue to fight for our Constitution and our Louisiana way of life.
If you would like updates on this and other key issues that affect Louisiana families, please visit my website at http://www.vitter.senate.gov and sign up for my E-Updates.
Sincerely,
David Vitter
U.S. Senator
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SlackwareRobert
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Posted: Mon Mar 2nd, 2009 07:46 pm |
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Does this include protection while in your mobile office?
Or is this more smoke screening they are for the 2A while having unreasonable restrictions?
Anyone want to be the test case on this one?
If the government is for something, you can bet it won't be good for us.
If they were serious about the 2A, then it would have included the language that
assault weapons are not semi look-alikes.
The taxing of bullets violates the 2A, if it violates #1 with churches then it also must
be so for the 2nd.
If the seat they are given will be Pelosi's district, I am all for letting them vote,
to get rid of her it would be worth it.
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Posted: Wed Mar 4th, 2009 11:39 am |
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| You want rights? Good, you should! By the way, it's a package deal...you either get the whole package or you get nothing. You want your citizens to have the right to vote, the right to religious freedom, the right to petition, the right to assemble...well, that package includes (among others), the right to keep and bear arms. Notice how that last sentence did not mention that you can only keep and bear arms in your own home right?
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