Hey dumbass Kay Bailey! Gun laws in Texas do NOT work in DC!!

[LynneSin]

This is fucking horrible because unlike other major urban areas, DC has no say in the laws that are passed for their city since DC is basically 'taxation without representation' and get their laws given to them by a congress that they have no representation in it.

Kay, if you want to be a pistol packing mama, then why not move your home out of DC and into Rick Santorum (R-PA) home state of Virginia. Big Cities want and need different gun laws than suburban/rural areas.

This bill, unfortunately, will probably pass making it 1000% more unsafe in a city that doesn't need anymore guns flooding its streets - especially concealled weapons

:cry:


http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/04776528.asp

GUN CONTROL
Re-arming DC: Senators want to pack heat in capital
BY DAVID S. BERNSTEIN


As a US Senator from Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchison splits time between her home state, where she is allowed to own practically any weapon invented and can even carry a concealed handgun, and the District of Columbia, where she can’t even keep a .357 Magnum in her house. For 12 years she has managed to abide this without complaint, but apparently she’s had enough. In May, she filed a bill to overturn DC’s gun-control laws, and this week she indicated that she has more than 30 co-sponsors and intends to push it to the floor for a vote in the near future.

The bill would, in one swoop, negate all the gun laws the district has adopted over the past 30 years, including pre-purchase criminal-background checks and bans on semi-automatic weapons and cop-killer bullets. If it passes the Senate, it is expected to breeze through the House, which passed a similar bill last September.

In the press release announcing the bill, Hutchison is quoted saying, apparently without irony: "The rights guaranteed by the Constitution do not end at the borders of Washington, DC."

In fact, the bill is an example of the opposite: unlike everyone else in North America, DC residents can have their own local laws rewritten by a group — the US Congress — in which they cannot elect a voting member.

[tanyev]

1. So who in DC does Kay want to take out?

[LynneSin]

2. I think the same people my cats want to take out

I mean, every night those cats are chasing around somebody in my home because they're running real face and doing the attack pose and all

[Selatius]

3. There's plenty of illegal guns in DC

This bill wouldn't do anything to address criminals with guns and the high homicide rate with guns. Unless we want to turn DC into the equivalent of Hitler's fucking bunker, I think we should try a different approach, like fighting poverty and giving more opportunities to get ahead in this nation.

With the money blown in Iraq, we could've given every college student a Pell grant large enough to cover all tuition expenses for several years. No, we invest in blowing up lives and inflicting misery, not building and enriching human life.

[LynneSin]

4. Unfortunately that has to go through congress too

:cry:

[Bridget Burke]

5. So maybe she'll run for Governor of Texas after all.

Time to talk tuff! She was "the less insane Senator from Texas" when her colleague was the loathsome Phil Gramm. Cornyn has allowed her to continue in that role. Perhaps she has to convince the less evolved Texans that she's nutty enough to be Governor.

One of W's "strengths" when he ran against Ann Richards was promising the "right to carry." Most Texas law enforcement agencies opposed it.