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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
San Francisco’s Proposition H overturned
Superior Court Judge James Warren ruled yesterday against Propostion H:
– An initiative that San Francisco voters approved last November banning residents from owning handguns violated state law, a Superior Court judge ruled today.
Proposition H, which won a 58 percent majority, would have outlawed possession of handguns by all city residents except law enforcement officers and others who needed the guns for professional purposes. It also would have forbidden the manufacture, sale and distribution of all guns and ammunition in San Francisco.
The National Rifle Association sued on behalf of gun owners, advocates and dealers the day after the measure passed. The NRA argued that Prop. H overstepped local government authority and intruded into an area regulated by the state. The city agreed to delay enforcement of the measure while the suit was pending.
In today’s ruling, Judge James Warren said California law, which authorizes police agencies to issue handgun permits, implicitly prohibits a city or county from banning handgun possession by law-abiding adults.
That law “demonstrates the Legislature’s intent to occupy, on a statewide basis, the field of residential and commercial handgun possession to the exclusion of local government entities,” Warren wrote in a 30-page decision.
If the city were allowed to ban handguns within its borders, he said, nearby counties could be flooded by handguns no longer allowed in San Francisco. Such a possibility illustrates the need for gun ownership to be regulated on a state level, Warren said.
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Warren also overturned Prop. H’s prohibition on sales of other types of guns and ammunition, saying it was tied to the handgun ban and could not be salvaged as a separate measure.
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Since its San Francisco it’s more fitting to call it “Preparation H” and there is one Judge on the left coast that believes in the rule of law. With Judge Warren’s ruling he must believe we are a Republic of Laws not a Democracy (Mob Rule) majority does not over ride the Law or the Constitution. I wonder if the city of San Francisco will send out grief counselors for the booger eating bed wetters that are upset with the Judges ruling.
OoooHhhh my god an honest law biding citizen can own a handgun for protection in the city limits of San Francisco the world is falling apart.
I can hear the liberals whining all the way here in Georgia.
“Since its San Francisco it’s more fitting to call it “Preparation H”"
ROTFL!
Good one Jim!
I love the leftist attitude. If they think the people support something that’s against the law, they the law should be ignored and Democracy should reign! Damn the laws and Republic! The PEOPLE have spoken! Mob Rule!
When what they want is opposed by the people, why then, they should be forced to do it for their own good, they don’t know what’s best for them! Bring on despotism and dictatorial rule! Damn the Republic and laws and Democracy, Totalitarianism is the thing we need!
The sure aren’t noted for their consistency.
Jim, you beat me to the “Preparation H” joke!
Maybe it should have been called “Proposition K-Y”, since that is what would have been needed for the creators of this wacko proposition to stick their heads up their collective Deleted. – Halliburton Corporation