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Press conference on Parker
Video here. Excellently done. Everyone says their piece, short and concise, and that's it. We look forward to the fight, and this is why we brought the case.
The opposition speakers are stiff, often apologetic -- DC "had no choice" but to continue with the appeal, it's a "bittersweet moment," if the suit hadn't come over this law it would have come under some other law... only the last speaker bothers to say he thinks they'll win.
Comments
Thanks for the video link.
I'm impressed (NOT) with how articulate the supporters of the gun ban are. I'm wondering, of all these experts who support DC's gun ban that they allude to, how many aren't simply political shills?
Posted by: countertop at November 21, 2007 12:51 AM
and notice how few people are at the DC Govt press conference. And why have Jack Evan's speak?? He's a known danger to society.
"Its going to be a sickening moment to watch presidential candidates make gun control an issue"
Heh, I wonder whats so sickening . . . the extent to which the Democrats are going to go to throw DC to the wolves???
Posted by: countertop at November 21, 2007 12:59 AM
Awesome. I'm so proud that I've met all those people.
Posted by: Jim W at November 21, 2007 02:46 AM
And I predicted over a year ago that this case was going to drop like a bomb right into the midst of the 2008 presidential election.
This will hammer home forever the point we made in 1994 and 2000 about politicians that support gun control.
Posted by: Jim W at November 21, 2007 02:58 AM
There is no such thing as "forever" in politics. I do know this, though: Dems will not trot out more gun control as an issue so long as they think it will hurt them at the polls. That is what matters. It is the only thing that matters. As Senator Everett Dirkson said: "When I feel the heat, I see the light."
Posted by: Letalis Maximus, Esq. at November 21, 2007 05:38 AM
My favorite comment was when the bald councilman said, "Irregardless". *snort*
Posted by: JT at November 21, 2007 08:48 AM