Town Hall Meeting on the repeal of the DC Gun Law.

[Cliff]

Town Hall Meeting on the repeal of the DC Gun Law.UPDATE! See my last post.

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES ESPECIALLY DC RESIDENTS

Elanor Holmes Norton is having a Town Hall Meeting on the repeal of the DC Gun Law. We need people to come out and show her and others that all of the polls taken by media sources have shown that the citizens of the District want the law changed.

Tuesday July 26, 2005 at Shaw Jr. High School located at 9th and Rhode Island Ave. NW from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. I will be wearing my CAFE Cap if you have one please wear it.

This is the chance we have been waiting for, lets not blow it!

Thank you for your help,
Ricardo A. Royal, National President
202 529-4724








People,
I hope that you would consider coming into the district to attend this meeting. I'll be there. This is not only important to residents of the District of Columbia,but to residents of Maryland,and VA also. If our rights to protect ourselves are infringed in one location,then it's only a matter of time before they are taken away everywhere.

I've heard a lot of talk from MD & VA residents regarding the sad state of gun rights in D.C. Now's the time AGAIN to put up or shut up. Get over your fear of driving inside the district and please attend this meeting to show your support for the rights of all of us to protect ourselves.

 

[LAR-15]

If I was near DC I would be there.

Bump

 

[armoredman]

May the Good Lord assist your efforts.

 

[RealGun]

She doesn't care about guns. She cares about home rule. That's her power base. Save your breath.

edited to read [home rule], not [home run]???

 

[K-Romulus]

Good Luck

I want to attend, but cannot make it.

I am concerned, though, that this 'town meeting" is a sham press conference:

http://www.dcexaminer.com/articles/2005/07/25//news/d_c_news//05newsdc25briefs.txt

D.C. News Briefs - District leaders to attend town hall meeting on gun violence

Published: Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:46 PM EDT
E-mail this story | Print this page

On Tuesday District leaders are scheduled to participate in a town hall meeting on gun violence and legislation to end the city's gun ban. Hosted by Eleanor Holmes Norton and Citizens to Save D.C. Gun Safety Laws, the meeting will feature speeches by Mayor Williams and gun violence survivors. The event will be held 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Shaw Junior High, 925 Rhode Island Ave. NW.

 

[jnojr]

I am concerned, though, that this 'town meeting" is a sham press conference

All the more reason to swarm in wearing pro-rights shirts, to ask pointed questions, and generally make sure that the media must either show a swell of support for getting rid of these laws, or not be able to show any footage or play any sound at all

 

[El Tejon]

Go get them, Cliff!

 

[Standing Wolf]

Travel to Washington, D.C. unmarmed? Frankly, I'd just as soon go to Iraq unarmed.

 

[K-Romulus]

anyone who made it to the forum

please give us a run-down of what happened . . .

 

[chris in va]

Definitely. I'm curious myself.

 

[Cliff]

Just got home from the meeting. I'll provide a more detailed update tomorrow,but it was a farce,a total setup. Man, am I pissed! :banghead: I have NEVER heard more inasine,backword, ass-endforward non-logical,and just plain stupid statments then I've heard tonight. I just got home, I'm tired,hungry,and I have to read two chapters for class tomorrow evening. So this will be short tonight.
I do want to thank the non-DC residents who came out tonight. A few of them left early after seeing what kind of BS meeting this was. I started to walk out myself,but I stayed for damn near the whole thing. A more detailed report tomorrow evening.

 

[XLMiguel]

DC is a Third World Country

600K people without voting representation and full Constitutional rights, the city is run for the convenience of a bunch of elites (aka the Congress of the United States) with the complicity of the indiginous pols who all try to out Mau-mau each other while ignoring what the citizens actually want, and you're surprised it was a set up?

Elenor Holmes Norton is a dingbat.

I can't wait to get out of this area.

But thanks for trying, anyhow.

 

[Harry Tuttle]

any sign of the DC/MD MMM crew?

 

[K-Romulus]

thanks to Cliff and the others

like Ricardo Royal for just being there to stand up for what was right.

I am truly sorry I couldn't make it.

 

[K-Romulus]

update: story in the WashPost

Notice the title . . . and it WAS a total set-up (see below). . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/27/AR2005072700034.html

D.C. Residents Rally in Support of Gun Restrictions

By Allan Lengel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 27, 2005; Page B03

Amid the rapid clip of anti-gun speeches last night, Eric Wright fired back.

The five-year city resident stepped before a microphone and said he had been attacked three times by homeless people and shot at as he drove through Rock Creek Park.


"I deserve the right to defend myself. I deserve the right to carry a weapon by my side," Wright said at an anti-gun town hall meeting at Shaw Junior High School in Northwest Washington. "I'd like to know why people believe I don't have that right."

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), a sponsor of the event, responded by questioning whether guns offer citizens much protection. And she wondered aloud whether Wright, if he had been armed, would have stopped his car and started firing back.

More than 200 people, including Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) and Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, attended the meeting, designed to rally opposition to congressional efforts to abolish various D.C. gun laws.

Overwhelmingly, residents, some of whom had lost loved ones to gun violence, delivered passionate speeches, speaking of a direct correlation between guns and crime. Among the speakers was the Rev. Anthony Black, the father of Antre-Vyn Mason-Black, an Iraq war veteran who was fatally shot last month in the District.

But Wright's remarks, echoed by a few others in attendance, provided a rare public glimpse of the pro-gun contingent in the District, which politicians say represents a small minority. Some waved yellow signs urging repeal.

Late last month, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to repeal one of the District's gun restrictions. The legislation would allow residents to keep in their homes loaded and assembled rifles and shotguns, as well as handguns purchased before 1976, loaded and assembled.

The meeting began with a familiar refrain: Norton criticizing Congress for meddling in the District's affairs.

"If in fact they need the gun laws repealed, they need to tell it to the (D.C.) Council," she said. Council members unanimously support the city's gun laws, which are among the toughest in the nation.

Williams, who sat on the stage, stood up and expressed his disdain for Congress's latest efforts.

"I find it outrageous," he said.

Resident Margaret Hollister recalled the day an armed robber entered her home. He knocked her teeth out. He forced her to kneel before a toilet. He ran off with her valuables.

"What good would it have done for me to have a gun in the house?" she asked.

Kris Hammond, a member of D.C. Young Republicans, challenged the city's gun laws, saying they leave some women vulnerable to domestic attacks.

He asked, hypothetically, about a woman with a restraining order against her ex-husband who needed to fend him off as he tried to break into her house.

"What should she do" if the police don't show up in time, he asked.

Ramsey, who also was on stage, responded that the presence of guns in households often results in more violence.

And he added, in reference to Wright's earlier remarks about the homeless, that most homeless people are unarmed.

 

[The Real Hawkeye]

I always make it a point to drive around DC. Feels like a communist country there.

 

[LAR-15]

The only reason the DC gun laws are being repealed is that Congress is selfish and wants guns in their DC residences.

 

[scout26]

the father of Antre-Vyn Mason-Black, an Iraq war veteran who was fatally shot last month in the District

Unpossible, guns are illegal in DC, therefore this could not have happened.

Resident Margaret Hollister recalled the day an armed robber entered her home. He knocked her teeth out. He forced her to kneel before a toilet. He ran off with her valuables.

"What good would it have done for me to have a gun in the house?" she asked.

Uhhh, I don't know, maybe you could have used it to protect yourself before he knocked your teeth out ?????

He asked, hypothetically, about a woman with a restraining order against her ex-husband who needed to fend him off as he tried to break into her house.

"What should she do" if the police don't show up in time, he asked.

Notice that the reporter has no answer for this question.

And he added, in reference to Wright's earlier remarks about the homeless, that most homeless people are unarmed.

What about the ones that are armed ??? (Wait that's also unpossible as DC HAS A LAW AGAINST IT) How about the ones that have knives or ice picks or baseball bats or hammer or clubs or bad breath and body odor ???