If You Outlaw Guns, only Outlaw's Children Will Shoot Themselves Accidentally

This post is horribly late, I know . . .

Apparently the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has now ruled that citizens of the District of Columbia can keep gays in their house. This is a direct affront to the will of the people of the city. They have repeatedly confirmed that in the District it should be illegal to have gays in their house and all of the elected leaders of the District of Columbia have echoed this feeling. These unelected judges have once again disregarded the will of the people and shown themselves to be nothing more than judicial activists. These tyrants in black robes must be stopped. They must be impeached immediately.

What, they said we can have GUNS in our homes. Oh well, never mind, I guess Frist, Dobson and the Federalist Society have no problem with that one (unless of course the guns are gay, which is a whole new problem).

Haven't read the case, but I see that already my temporary state Senator David Vitter has proposed a DC firearm law (the District of Columbia Personal Protection Act). Hmm, David, big bad federal government going to certain area of the country and telling them what to do with their laws? Didn't your region lose a war and about 8,000 court cases over the same sort of thing.

Growing up in D.C. there are always these incredibly annoying moments where the federal officials seize upon something to try and push some new development in D.C. Back when a congressional aide was shot there was a big move to reinstitute the death penalty (despite opposion from the actual residents of the city), and if memory serves at some point Ollie North showed up at Lincoln Park calling for a repeal of the handgun ban and said he was packing heat (my line of work disclines me from snitching to the police, but that was a time where I would have made an exception).

These sort of glorified photo ops with the backdrop of actual (ie. non-federal) D.C. always annoyed me. Be it Ollie or Dick Armey, I always imagined that they would get lost going near the SE-SW freeway and spend hours going in circles around the Kapper dwellings until they ran out of gas.