I lived and practiced law in the District of Columbia when that jurisdiction began its creep toward outlawing gun ownership. At first it was just a registration law. "That's all we want," the DC City Council assured its citizens. Then came the inevitable escalation each year or so, finally resulting in a ban on ownership of firearms within the jurisdiction. Seeing the handwriting on the wall after the first two years, I gathered up my guns and moved to the Maryland countryside. Now, forty years later when I and my guns happily reside in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, I watch with dismay as Maryland also increasingly becomes an anti-gun jurisdiction. Of course, the US Supreme Court in the Heller case finally struck down DC's draconian gun law, but the DC City Council is doing is best to circumvent that decision.
So it goes.
I've lived and worked in Third World countries where the dictators or military juntas du jour found it their personal best interests to disarm their citizenry. Unless a majority of our next generation can get their heads out of their Apple devices and stop relying on the few and the proud to protect their freedoms, I expect the "Nannys" among us to prevail and the Second Amendment to be repealed. And California and its elected officials are leading the way, along with some from New York, New Jersey, and Illinois.
May God help our grandchildren.
