The District's new handgun law -- with its tight restrictions and bureaucratic registration hoops -- is drawing heat.
"It reminds me of 'massive resistance,'" said Clark Neily, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, referring to the Southern states' reaction to the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision.
"The rhetoric is very similar: 'We have a certain way of doing things here. We don't care what the courts have to say,'" he told NBC4, mocking the city's response to the Supreme Court's recent gun-ban decision by comparing it to one of Dixie's worst periods.
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"We The People" "The Pro Gun Blog" 
07-24-2008, 02:55 PM
You're Just Whistling Dixie ... 
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