"Screw your friends and appease your enemies...."

So says David Hardy, speaking about the GOP, on his blog "Of Arms and the Law" concerning the Justice Department's surprise support of D.C.'s ban on handguns:

Quick read: Gov't says, yes, it's an individual right. BUT we join with DC in asking Court to reverse the DC Circuit, because it applied strict scrutiny to the DC law. It should only have applied an intermediate standard. That is, the legal position of the US is that DC Circuit was wrong, a complete ban on handguns is NOT per se unconstitutional, it all depends on how good a reason DC can prove for it.
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There was a saying during my years in DC that the GOP operated on two principles: screw your friends and appease your enemies.

The assault on second amendment rights is alive and well in the Justice Department.

H/T From On High
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