The shoot ‘em up capital

Jul 19, 2009 Lex scripta, Metropolis, Packing heat

A year after the Supreme Court told the Washington, DC city counsel that, yes, the Second Amendment does apply to the District of Columbia, it’s exactly as the Brady Bunch has predicted — with pretty much everyone packing heat, it’s now a wide-open, Wild West firing range where you have to run, squatting, from your car to the lobby of the building you’re going into just to avoid the ricocheting ordnance.

Or not.

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Shocking News: Washington, DC Has Not Become Wild West Shootoutville Says:

July 19th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
[...] UPDATE: Linked by Ron Coleman! [...]

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