{"id":5109,"date":"2010-10-23T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/10\/23\/cry-me-river-2\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:12:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:12:13","slug":"cry-me-river-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5109","title":{"rendered":"Cry Me A River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18803,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/content\\\/article\\\/2010\\\/10\\\/22\\\/AR2010102205448.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/22\/AR2010102205448.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colbert King, in an op-ed in today&#8217;s Washington Post<\/a>, laments that the expected increase in the number of conservatives and Republicans in Congress after mid-term elections doesn&#8217;t bode well for the District of Columbia&#8217;s autonomy. Pardon me if I am not sympathetic especially when he writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>What&#8217;s more, a new Congress, under Republican influence, is likely to give the District more of what it doesn&#8217;t want.<\/p>\n<p>Expect, for example, a renewed effort to weaken D.C. gun laws and restrict the D.C. Council&#8217;s regulation of firearms. Gun-rights forces tried to do that this year when they attached pro-gun language that ultimately derailed voting rights legislation. The Nov. 2 elections, if all goes as predicted, will only strengthen their hands.<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess we should be happy that the District has been run by foolish politicians or we never would have gotten the <i>Heller<\/i> decision. Mayor Adrian Fenty&#8217;s intransigence led to DC&#8217;s appeal of the Court of Appeals win for Dick Heller. This, in turn, led to the Supreme Court acknowledging, finally and concretely, that the Second Amendment is an individual right.<\/p>\n<p>So to assuage Mr. King&#8217;s sorrow, I send him this nice rendition of &#8220;Cry Me A River&#8221; sung by Susan Boyle.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colbert King, in an op-ed in today&#8217;s Washington Post, laments that the expected increase in the number of conservatives&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1417,4554,377],"class_list":["post-5109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-mid-term-elections","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5879,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}