Of course, they can’t just come out and say it, but one of the reasons why the main stream media is pooh-pooh-ing l’affaire Gregory is that the idea that simple possession of an unloaded magazine being a crime is so mind-bogglingly stupid on its face that they understand the unfairness of it all at a gut level. Why should merely holding a metal box with a spring in it be punishable by a $1,000 fine and a year in jail?
Well, our betters passed that law, and now one of them has broken it.
And now we will see whether DC is a city ruled by laws or by men above the laws.
UPDATE–Instalanche! Thanks, Prof. Reynolds, and welcome, Instapundit readers!
UPDATE 2–Ann Althouse explains the legal and moral aspects of the situation to Howard Kurtz.
UPDATE 3—Why, yes, I do use 30-round magazines with my M1 Carbine.
D.C. Is now obviously ruled by those above the laws, particularly if they happen to be democrats. I call them the socialist aristocracy.
I’m guessing the answer is “men above the laws”
“And now we will see whether DC is a city ruled by laws or by men above the laws.”
Conservatives already know the answer. The only question is how blatant the answer will be to the LIVs.
” Why should merely holding a metal box with a spring in it be punishable by a $1,000 fine and a year in jail?”
Under the Clinton crime bill it was ten years mandatory.
My favorite term for them is “the neo-gentry.” Angelo Codevilla’s brilliant little book “The Ruling Class” is the best description/diagnosis yet.
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Elsewhere, Steve Milloy is busy demanding legal action because the EPA has been subjecting experimental subjects (some of them already unhealthy) to particulates that their own greenie hype claims are deadly at any concentration.
The lying narratives have begun curling around one by one to bite our masters in the ass, and it’s wonderful to see.
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