DC - District of Columbia "Right to Carry"

[kenhwind]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/07/lawsuit-seeks-right-to-carry-guns-in-public/
Just found this on Outdoors Unlimited.

[Aguila Blanca]

D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson, chairman of the Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary, had not seen the lawsuit but said he disagrees with the basic premise.

"Mr. Gura is treading uncharted ground claiming that the Second Amendment offers the right to carry," he said.
HUH???

Did Mr. Mendelson graduate from grammar school? What does he think the "bear" part of "keep and bear arms" means, if not "carry"?

In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "Ehhh ... what a maroon."

[kenhwind]

Daffy Duck has a better reply for them: "you're despicable"
But Bugs was cool: "What an embezel, what a maroon, what an ultra maroon"
When we went bact to Long Island to bury my mother we got lost in DC, funny how the Interstate 95 takes you right downtown DC.
After we were through the federal area we were then lost, mislocated, I was kind of glad a Police Positive Special was stashed in my duffle bag. Yes it was loaded.

"shall not be infringed" is not part of their intellectua

[Patriotic]

There in lies the problem, we are the United States but the states are far from being united. I live and work in Ohio and my wife and daughter live in New York. We are physically separated out of necessity for employment. I have an Ohio CCW license but cannot get a New York license because I am not a resident. The criteria for a CCW license is identical in both states – background check, fingerprints, firearm safety course and proficiency with firearms.

Does anyone know of a holster I can carry a 12 gage shotgun with a 18-1/2 barrel, folding stock and pistol grip for when I go back to New York?

[d90king]

New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts, California and a couple others leave you at the mercy of the criminal. They almost never grant citizens the RIGHT, that they were born with to protect themselves.

It is time for the citizens to start electing public servants that actually serve. Servants that respect the Republic and the constitution, and actually start to serve the citizens, and not themselves and the corporations that pay to get them elected.

I do believe that with some of the antics of this administration, that people are starting to get fed up to a point were maybe true change will someday be an option again.

[kenhwind]

It is time for the citizens to start electing public servants that actually serve. Servants that respect the Republic and the constitution, and actually start to serve the citizens, and not themselves and the corporations that pay to get them elected.
Ain't that the truthI do believe that with some of the antics of this administration, that people are starting to get fed up to a point were maybe true change will someday be an option again.
It seems that way, but the more they lose their grip the tighter the fist will get.

[kenhwind]

Some more input on the DC Right to Carry.
http://www.examiner.com/x-17034-Chicago-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m8d7-SAF-and-Heller-attorney-file-new-suit-over-DCs-ban-on-bearing-arms

[DoubleTap45]

NY City politics sometimes makes Chi-Town look clean!! The City Council is PACKED with big government socialist elites who HATE the 2nd Amendment and have personal security which is often funded by the people THEY leave defenseless. I can have a pistol loaded in my home and take it, unloaded, to a range to shoot. I can also have a premises permit for a business or limited carry ON the grounds of a business. Only VERY rich, well-connected DEMOCRAT contributors get CCW. Of the 15 CCW permits granted in the Rotten Apple since Doomsberg was elected all but two went to big donors or celebs. :butthead:

-Ray

[Dial 1911 for Help]

HUH??? Did Mr. Mendelson graduate from grammar school? What does he think the "bear" part of "keep and bear arms" means, if not "carry"? In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "Ehhh ... what a maroon."
Well, I supposed the "uncharted ground" the guy refers to is the "extremist" idea that government should limit their exercise of powers to what it says in the document that chartered that branch of government in the first place, and stop trying to figure out how to infringe on our rights to the maximum extent while still having some rationale they can hide behind as a shield for their wrongdoing when they get called up before SCOTUS. If that's what he means, he's just about right.

Besides, when did any ever say "uncharted ground"? Aren't "uncharted waters" normally the great unknown, you know, being all covered up with WATER and all?

[DoubleTap45]

Notice your marriage, driver's license, adoptions, citizenship (if naturalized) and other aspects of your life are valid from state to state? That's called the "full faith and credit" clause of the Constitution. So what is the big fat deal about applying it to CCW? :dead_hors

For one thing if NY City had to accept CCW from anywhere that it's valid the oppressed citizenry might want the same. Can't have that. No, can't have New Yorkers exercise the RIGHTS which are listed and recognized, NOT "granted" by the Constitution. Too many trial lawyers would lack work and the Medical Examiner might have to open branch offices to handle the perforated perps. :D

-Ray

[Patriotic]

You have to realize those perps you speak of are Democrat voters (I refuse to use the term "democratic" because there is nothing democratic about that Party).