In Total Defiance Of Our High Court

What has made this country great is the legal process in which we the people go through in order to enact laws and the continued process in which we refine and define the use of those laws throughout our society. In District of Columbia vs. Heller, a security guard from within the District legally challenged the total ban on guns, in particular hand guns. This case ultimately made its way to the United States Supreme Court where, in a 5-4 decision, the court ruled that D.C.’s ban was unconstitutional. The District of Columbia has since thumbed its nose at the High Court and decided to continue its unconstitutional ban on guns. No doubt this will end up in court, again.

Within the U.S. Congress is a bill, HR1399, the “District of Columbia Personal Protection Act.” This bill could resolve the D.C. defiance machine and restore the Second Amendment rights of the people in that city. But don’t hold your breath waiting for Congress to even vote on it say nothing of passing it.

Even though there are some 247 cosponsors of this bill, the far left, anti-gun leadership in both Houses oppose this bill. No surprises there. It is doubtful this leadership will even allow a vote, especially with the prospects of the upcoming November election as this country moves deeper into a left wing socialistic society that bans most human rights.

Paul Weyrich of Townhall.com offers his explanation as what the bill would do and also why there will be no vote on it.

The D.C. City Council has imposed a very burdensome system of gun registration. Only a handful of states have any registration and none has a system as complicated as that of the District. There is a solution to this tyranny. Congress can pass H.R. 1399, the “District of Columbia Personal Protection Act.” The bill, which is supported by the NRA and has 247 co-sponsors, would repeal the D.C. handgun ban and the storage requirement which prohibits keeping a firearm ready for self-defense in the home, two of the provisions found to be unconstitutional in the Heller decision. Moreover, it would repeal the D.C. registration system, which is burdensome in its own right and serves as a vehicle for even more restrictions and skewed definitions. H.R. 1399 would restrict the D.C. Council’s authority to impose undue restrictions upon residents’ Second Amendment right. It also would repeal the ban upon semi-automatic firearms, conforming the District’s law to federal legislation. It would repeal various restrictions on ammunition and the District’s “Strict Liability Act,” which allows manufacturers of certain types of guns “to be held strictly liable in tort, without regard to fault or proof of defect.”

As part of “the process” that I spoke of before, in my lifetime in don’t recall ever witnessing so blatant a disrespect and disregard for the highest court in our land. Our system is such that even with a ruling such as was the case in District of Columbia vs. Heller, our legislature could enact new laws that would change that ruling. All part of the process.

What I find very disturbing is the District of Columbia Council’s unanimous vote to essentially continue with its ban on handguns, a ban in which the Heller ruling stated unequivocally was unconstitutional. With the left’s continued movement toward stripping Americans of their rights, why is it the people can’t see the direction this group wants to take this country and oppose it?

With the November prospects being the possibility of the most liberal, anti-gun president ever in office, combined with a real possibility that the U.S. Senate could obtain majority (60 seats) control, not only are we staring down the barrel of having our Second Amendment destroyed, so too will we find other rights, supposedly guaranteed us yanked out of our hands. Is this what we want?

From the very beginning I surmised that the District of Columbia vs. Heller case could very will decide who the next president of the United States would be. I still believe that this case could still strongly influence that decision as well as where control of Congress winds up. If Americans can open their eyes wide enough to see the dangers of this far left democratic leadership and the perils that await us citizens through the destruction of our constitution, things can change in November at the polls.

Tom Remington