--The District of Colombia's very own (and relatively new*) government has filed to keep their gun-carrying ban in place while they appeal the decision that wiped it out. Who didn't see that move coming?
Never you mind that crime in the District has been declining ever since Heller, either.
It seems the Mayor and Council in D.C. agree with the sentiment I read on F-cebook recently, asserting that "we mustn't let the courts turn society upside down to protect the rights of a tiny minority." Legal gun-owners in the District of Colombia are still -- alas -- a tiny minority. Me, well, I'm in favor of the Bill of Rights, even the part that reminds readers the list is by no means comprehensive, that We The People have plenty of rights and the Feds are charged with defending them, not infringing them.
D. C. Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan gets QOTD, from here:
“A stay would prevent the Council from having to unduly rush, which could result in a law that is not as considered as it could be, and limit the public’s confusion and other unintended consequences.”
Emphasis mine. "Time to feed the pigs," is it? Tsk, sir, tsk.
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* They got home rule in 1973, making D.C.'s about as young a big-city government as you can find in the States.
"“A stay would prevent the Council from having to unduly rush, which could result in a law that is not as considered as it could be, and limit the public’s confusion and other unintended consequences.”
ReplyDeleteTranslated:
"Once we get the stay we'll 'consider' carry law in the district until amoebas drive speedboats."
"A stay would prevent the Council from having to unduly rush, which could result in a law that is not as considered as it could be, and limit the public's confusion and other unintended consequences."
ReplyDeleteOr, they could take the Illinois General Assembly's route, and spend 179 days of the 180-day stay refusing to address it, and hashing it out at the 11th hour (and 59th minute).
As they will.
ReplyDeleteArcher is probably right... And they ARE having hissy fits over losing...
ReplyDeleteThings went down hill fast after that.
ReplyDeleteI would say that they might have learned something about hastily enacted laws and unintended consequences by watching the Obamacare debacle including court actions, but I agree with everyone else here, they aim to run the clock so the liberty and peace side might miss a deadline or have a less than stellar argument.
ReplyDeleteAnd “"we mustn't let the courts turn society upside down to protect the rights of a tiny minority."
They never worried about that in the past; we see what they think of the many residents of the District who want to go to work and go home, go to school, or a restaurant or a show and not have to worry that someone who believes in violent income redistribution will make it so they don’t go home at night.
A “Society upside down” would be one that is less dependent on the pols for illusory security against the forces of chaos and danger, allies of the pols who use them to keep the residents dependent on the pols, always voting to return them to their phony baloney jobs.
Ricknator, Alan Gura knows how to write effective writs of mandamus, it won't take until amoebas drive speedboats, maybe barnacles.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny...I always thought that the PURPOSE of a (civilized) society was to "...protect the rights of a tiny minority" against the whims of both the mobs and the officials.
ReplyDeleteWindy-- Barnacles? Well, that's much different then.
ReplyDeleteI feel much better now.
Of course they could have looked at the various lawsuits, and written a law based on the many laws already in force, in the event that our unconstitutional abuse of authority was struck down.
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