House Passes Repeal of D.C. Gun Bans - Why this is wrong

[demnan]

Today the Federal Government made a decision about a local jurisdiction. The local government had no voice in the matter. It didn't matter that many legislative representatives from rural areas were making decisions for an urban area, it didn't matter what the city council thought. The Republicans rule Washington, D.C. with an iron fist. The people of Washington, D.C. cannot decide the gun rules that best serve their area. This is not a Democracy, this is not a Republic. This is colonialism - and this is wrong.

[DebbieCDC]

1. DC Gun Ban Repeal

I lived in DC for 20 years until last summer. This is the LEAST of what the fed gov't has done to DC over the years. You cannot believe what people who live there have to put up with. I could write a book.

[demnan]

2. Perhaps you should!

I've never lived in the city but always close by and I get livid every time the puffed up Congress makes another assault on that fair city and its kind residents.

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. You can blame the Founding Fathers

Article I

Section 8

Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings

http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html

[demnan]

4. Well, of course I knew that!

But slavery was repealed and women got the vote so why not D.C.?

[MountainLaurel]

6. Because it's black and blue

And the Repukes will NEVER let that concentrated a population of both have voting representation and control over their own activities.

[starroute]

5. The founding fathers never expected DC to become a real city

They wanted to get the federal government away from commercial interests, away from local politics, away from anything that might tend to corrupt or dominate it. They saw the District of Columbia as a kind of sacred precinct, exclusively devoted to the rarified business of governing the nation.

They never imagined that it might become an ordinary city with ordinary people and ordinary interests.

Silly them.

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. I lived in DC for several years but still had representation in Congress

I was an employee of the Congress, so I was able to keep my legal residency in Pennsylvania. Although I lived in DC, I paid taxes and voted in PA.