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So, you’ve probably heard by now that a US Appeals Court has struck down the DC gun ban. I live outside of DC, so this ban hasn’t directly affected me and the change really doesn’t affect me right now either, as I don’t own a firearm at the present time.

Now, the Mayor has indicated he is going to appeal the decision, AND “said the city will vigorously enforce its handgun law” as he said the ruling “only addressed handgun possession in the home, not whether the city can regulate handguns elsewhere” and frankly, I’m waiting for some form of legal injunction to effectively nullify the court’s decision for the time being.

So, obviously we’ve not seen the end of this just yet. What I find amusing & somewhat annoying is how CNN has been reporting it, with comments along these lines: “District residents are doing something this weekend that they haven’t been able to do in 30 years – have a gun.”

OK, let’s think about this. If you’re a law abiding DC resident, you don’t have a handgun. Given the gun ban, I’m pretty sure that no one has been able to set up shop in DC since Friday afternoon to sell firearms. So, unless every DC resident that wanted a gun came out to Virginia and bought one this weekend (and I’m not even sure that Virginia shops can sell to DC residents, regardless of this court ruling), then really – who is actually now walking around with a gun that wasn’t on Friday morning?

Sorry CNN, but I don’t think evey DC resident now has a gun.

Finally got the photos done from Philly!

Reading Terminal Market

Independence Hall

Flower Show

I was ready for riots in the streets, exploding transformers, burning cars, animals escaping from zoos! Instead, I have none of this.

I am of course, speaking of the early changeover to daylight savings time. I am utterly disappointed that the world does not seem to be coming to an end today. The computer time changed, the cable box changed, and I’m assuming my cell phone changed as well (it’s in someone else’s car at the moment) – the only thing that could be considered a glitch would be the fact that the TiVo changed over at 2AM GMT, so it was actually 10PM when it changed.

So, I guess going to DST 3 weeks early wasn’t the end of the world they were predicting afterall.

If I can’t have riots, I’ll can settle for the extra hour of daylight in the evening.

UserFriendly’s take on early DST Sorry guys – yes, I’m sure this was a pain in the ass to deal with it, but it’s not like Congress made the change last week – you did have lead time on this one.