A victory for gun rights certainly helps wash down the sour taste of a credit card reform that shifts costs away from irresponsible borrowers and onto the backs of those who pay their debts on time and in full:
As the Times notes, the inability of leadership and the White House to strip out the measure bodes very well for a similar provision attached to (patently unconstitutional) legislation granting voting rights to the District. If Democrats move to give the District a vote, we will see the full repeal of the the district’s gun laws. And after Obama disingenuously offered his support for the Supreme Court’s decision striking down the DC handgun ban last summer, it would be a sweet irony if it was Obama’s signature that finally restored Second Amendment rights to citizens of the District.
