The Senate approved a similar bill to give the District voting representation. And approval in the House seemed all but assured. But an amendment attached to the Senate version of the legislation by Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., created problems in the House.
Ensign’s amendment would give Washington residents better access to firearms. The Supreme Court last year ruled that the District’s 32-year-old ban on firearms was unconstitutional.
Washington, D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes-Norton ripped pro-gun Democrats following news.
“There is no choice between a vote for American citizens and a completely unrelated and reckless gun bill. That is a non-choice,” Norton said during an emotional impromptu press conference following the Democratic caucus meeting Tuesday afternoon. “That’s not a fair exchange. That’s not even an unfair exchange. That is an absurd exchange that no one would accept.”
Passing the District of Columbia legislation was supposed to be easy in the House compared to the Senate. But the National Rifle Association signaled it could make a procedural vote on the issue a test case for lawmakers’ Second Amendment voting records.
The Blue Dogs are going to start giving Reid and Pelosi fits on these conservative issues. A bunch of them were elected in 2006 and 2008 by running to the right of moderate and liberal Republicans, and now those conservative (or at least more conservative than Pelosi) Democrats are refusing to fall in line behind the Speaker and her cadre of House leaders.
Washington D.C. is a crime-ridden mess, and yet most Dems can't see how it might be beneficial to let the good law-abiding people have guns for their personal protection. It hasn't occurred to them that by denying guns to the good people you ensure that only the bad people have them.
They're such idiots on these issues.
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