re: #16 Political Atheist

Okay my work night is postponed.
So back in and-
Looks to me like you are just pissed off. Dude you are being unreasonable on this tonight. William got pissed too. And you were wrong to call this man a vigilante. William reacted harshly. No you don’t take it that far like William said. Looks like about the same mistake to me. So sure I’ll stand up for you on that. William was wrong to put it like that. Will you retract the vigilante thing? Because that was just as out of line.

Quite Concur.

Obdi, I respect your views very much, but you’re on the wrong side of this one. The District of Columbia has behaved egregiously when it comes to firearms, and the man in question did not use his handgun for any criminal purpose. To shoot a dangerous animal that is mauling a child is not ‘vigilantism’ is any place in this country. It is considered lawful defense of another person.

Obdi, you may not like handguns much, but this isn’t a case where you want to dig in. The behavior of the District in the wake of the Heller decision has been a good bit worse than that of Chicago following MacDonald. Chicago at least has accepted the the Supreme Court’s decision and stayed within it; DC seems to feel the decision was illegitimate and thus the District is entitled to ignore it when possible. You don’t want to side with a scofflaw city government over an honest a courageous citizen, Obdi, you really don’t.