Law For Thee, Not For Me

Kim du Toit
March 19, 2008
8:39 AM CDT

Somebody sent me a report on this exchange, which took place outside the Supreme Court yesterday. Dick Heller, the hero good guy plaintiff in Heller v. Gun-Grabbing Scumbags D.C. was being interviewed, and this priceless exchange ensued:

At that point, a reporter interjected: “The Mayor (DC Mayor Adrian M. Fenty) says the handgun ban and his initiatives have significantly lowered violent crime in the District. How do you answer that, Mr. Heller?”

The initial answer certainly wasn’t expected â€â€ś Dick Heller laughed. Ruefully.

Pointing at the Mayor who was making his way across the plaza, surrounded by at least six DC police officers, Heller said, “The Mayor doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He doesn’t walk on the street like an average citizen. Look at him; he travels with an army of police officers as bodyguards—to keep him safe. But he says that I don’t have the right to be a force of one to protect myself. Does he look like he thinks the streets are safe?”

There was no follow-up question.

Ditto for Hizzoner Richie “The Turd” Daley of Chicago, who surrounds himself with bodyguards when he ventures outside his office, and ILGov Rod “Red” Blagojevitch, another GFW dickhead, who gets to have state troopers covering his worthless socialist ass.

Ordinary citizens in Chicago aren’t allowed to possess handguns either—and I bet Daley and the Guv are shaking in their shoes right now while Heller is being decided. I hope they shake themselves to death, the worthless bastards.

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I probably have that on my DVR. Gonna have to check. Would be a nice counterpoint to that foul crustwad of a police chief saying there’s no handgun ban, because armed agents of the government gets to carry handguns in DC.

Bruce in NH | 3/19/2008 08:49 AM CDT | #117831


Somebody sent me a report on this exchange,

Is this real?  Was it filmed?  If ever there was
a justification for YouTube, this is it.
.

stencil | 3/19/2008 09:08 AM CDT | #117833


The quoted passage was by Outdoor & Shooting Wire editor Jim Shepherd.

link

Bruce in NH | 3/19/2008 09:12 AM CDT | #117834


That is too powerful an argument against gun control.  It seems just too fortuitous that the Mayor be walking somewhere just at that moment, so I am skeptical. 

If it did happen, I hope it is on your DVR, Bruce, because I doubt the gun grabbing news scum would ever re-run that segment.

Windy Wilson | 3/19/2008 09:22 AM CDT | #117837


I don’t have that “on tape”, but I do have the video of Heller explaining that he carries a gun to protect government officials, but in their eyes, his own life isn’t worth protecting at home. Not sure when the other exchange took place. Wasn’t on C-Span.

Bruce in NH | 3/19/2008 09:23 AM CDT | #117838


At the end of C-Span’s video coverage, you can see Heller in the background talking to some more press folk. I hope someone got that bit recorded.

Bruce in NH | 3/19/2008 09:24 AM CDT | #117839


I hope they shake themselves to death, the worthless bastards.

I’d like to help them shake too, like rag dolls!

308Mike | 3/19/2008 09:51 AM CDT | #117845


Gun control is always about disarming the little people whose lives don’t matter. I have never heard about presidents or kings being disarmed by such laws. I have always said I would accept the handgun ban in Britain the day the Prime Minister loses his constant cohort of armed police. Of course it never happens. He needs armed protection because he’s important to the state. I am not allowed to own a handgun any more, because clearly my life is not important to the state. Well fair enough, but the corollary to that is that if the state ever asks me to help defend it they can kiss my ass. I would not lift a finger to defend a state which has disarmed me. It’s not my country any more, it theirs, they can fucking well defend it.

JohnK | 3/19/2008 11:02 AM CDT | #117857


I think you misspelled the Gov’s name - it’s “BLACKHOLOBITCH”.

he’s certainly living up to it, too - the state is all but bankrupt.

Glad I moved to Wisconsin!

ckuecker | 3/19/2008 11:05 AM CDT | #117858


“Ordinary citizens in Chicago aren’t allowed to possess handguns either—and I bet Daley and the Guv are shaking in their shoes right now while Heller is being decided. I hope they shake themselves to death, the worthless bastards.”

Rumor has it there is at least one person in the state government who feels the same way.

This moment of understatement has been brought to you by the “End The Occupation - Cook County Out of Illinois Now” committee and drinking society of downstate Illinois.

SoupOrMan | 3/19/2008 11:20 AM CDT | #117859


PLEASE, someone upload that clip to YouTube!!!

A better argument for ending gun bans cannot be found than this clip, assuming it really happened as described.  Damn, its almost too good to be true.

Let all the rest of us know when its there - then we can begin circulating it to dozens of our family and friends, who’ll pass it on, etc., etc....which is, after all, the point.  It won’t influence the Supreme Court, but it’ll sure influence a bunch of fence-sitters and help us control our legislators.

Sam Adams | 3/19/2008 11:29 AM CDT | #117864


Elderly Tucker man shoots, kills intruder

Thought you’d like this righteous shooting, on Heller Day (as I shall always remember it).

E Archer | 3/19/2008 11:57 AM CDT | #117872


I also like this opinion in a paper about the bizarre reasoning people have to make in order to make RKBA a collective right:

To insist otherwise is to hold that the Bill of Rights contains nine items to protect individual rights against government power, and one to protect government power against individual rights. It is to insist the word “people” means one thing in the First, Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments, and the opposite in the Second. It is to insist that the word militia does not mean what the Founders meant by that word ("the whole people"), and that the word keep does mean what they did not: to relinquish possession of.

Indeed!

308Mike | 3/19/2008 12:12 PM CDT | #117876


I’m sorry but this exchange is much more hilarious than the melted Owls.

I used to live in a country where normal citizen is subjected to the whims of the administrative clerk who decides if a particular person
should or should not be allowed to purchase a firearm based on the whims of the clerk at that moment.
At the same time, a “new in wrap” USGI 1911 was going for about $100 in the back alleys.

Law For Thee, Not For Me.
That is a true statement for just about most of the $h*&!### that is on the book anywhere in the world, especially, the ones penned by the un-elected bureaucratic/autocratic scums, um, ‘officials’, I meant.

drk | 3/19/2008 12:39 PM CDT | #117881


Isn’t it just amazing how they can justify their reasoning? And yet they get an armed protective squad, and it’s okay? Smells bad to me. Throw it out and buy fresh.
Windy, the fortuitousness is to our benefit. Yeah, the Mayor was out walking. WITH A PROTECTIVE DETAIL!

cmblake6 | 3/19/2008 02:19 PM CDT | #117902


“little dick” Daley, and his sock puppet, Blah-goyovich, would be the best comedy act to come out of Chicago since Second City, if it were not for the fact their actions effect the lives of millions, and not in a positive way.

The corruption is rampant (and not restricted to the Dems in this state).  The crime rates are abhorrent. And the flagrant disregard of individual liberties/rights of their constituents will earn them both a place in the inner-most circle of hell.  I bet they are both tossing and turning at night awaiting the result of SCOTUS’s take on the current case before them.

GuyS | 3/19/2008 03:41 PM CDT | #117911


I love this quote from Scalia “Since when does a reasonable gun law include a total ban? What is reasonable about that?” Unfortunately the Bush admin wrote an amicus brief that defends the ban.  I swear, rare is the day anymore when he does not piss me off, and yes, I voted for him twice, got the Christmas cards, the whole deal.

rawmuse | 3/19/2008 05:49 PM CDT | #117923

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