Guns and Votes
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Friday, March 23, 2007
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Reason‘s David Weigel summarizes a controversial exchange in the House of Representatives yesterday wherein the Democrats took a bill that would have given D.C. a voting representative in the House off the table in exchange for the Republicans agreeing to do the same with an amendment to remove D.C. gun restrictions:
To recap – a measure to give D.C. a vote, which opponents claim would violate the Constitution, is killed after Republicans demand that D.C. not violate the Constitution.
About right.
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It is a very sad thing, but both parties seem to be much more effective as minority parties than majority parties.
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What is odd is that fact that there has not been a SCOTUS case that test the constitutionality of local hand gun bans. If there has I don’t recall it and it would mean that the constitutionality was upheld making Weigle’s summary untrue.
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You’re confusing me, Rick. The Parker ruling by the Court of Appeals held that the ban was unconstitutional. How does that get changed into “the constitutionality was upheld?”
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