DC Council Digs In
Sigh. What has happened in DC with regards to the Second Amendment should remind us that some matters are much more easily defeated before they are implemented. An update on the latest:
The District of Columbia Council passed more regulations for gun owners Tuesday, months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the city’s 32-year-old handgun ban.
Among other things, the bill requires gun owners to register their weapons every three years and receive training by a certified firearms instructor.
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“No constitutional right is absolute, nor is this right to possess a gun in the home for self defense,” said councilwoman Mary Cheh, a law professor at George Washington University.
I think we all understand that rights have limits. However, the limit of one right is usually where it interfaces with another one, not an arbitrary point which has been decided by those people who believe that you and I are simply too inept and, well, childish to know what is best for us.
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