Background: last Sunday on Meet The Press David Gregory brandished a 30 round ammunition magazine while lecturing interrogating interviewing NRA head Wayne LaPierre. The problem is, however, that the mere possession of this item is in point of fact illegal in the District of Columbia, where Meet The Press is filmed. The police have been notified, and they are “investigating.” I’m not sure what they would be investigating, since Gregory demonstrated possession of the item on national television and the law is clear. The penalties are also apparently up to a $1,000 fine and/or a year in jail, but that’s actually incidental to the discussion at hand. What is not incidental is that we have a clear case where somebody broke the law. Probably unaware: but then, ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law.
I am perfectly serious. David Gregory needs to be arrested, for a very simple reason: if I publicly demonstrated my possession of an illegal magazine in DC then I would be arrested – which is something that I already knew very well. That David Gregory apparently did not is because David Gregory thinks that he is protected by privilege – which, as Robert Anton Wilson once reminded us, literally means ‘private law.’ The DC law is absurd and inequitable; it should be repealed. But if it is not going to be repealed then it absolutely must be enforced equitably.
And if your response is that David Gregory can be trusted with a high-capacity magazine because he is unlikely to use it to go on a murder spree, my immediate response would be: the same is equally true of people who legally possess firearms. Only they don’t have a privileged Media job.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
RT @moelane: #rsrh David Gregory should be arrested for violating DC’s gun law.: http://t.co/rIiQ0O4A
RT @moelane: #rsrh David Gregory should be arrested for violating DC’s gun law.: http://t.co/rIiQ0O4A
RT @moelane: #rsrh David Gregory should be arrested for violating DC’s gun law.: http://t.co/rIiQ0O4A
Don’t hold your breath, different rules for the elites.
I agree completely. He *should* be prosecuted, but *will* he? I wouldn’t bet on it. Shouldn’t stop us from making a lot of bad noise about it until something is done or a whole lot of people are exposed as the giant hypocrites they are.
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”
–Ulysses S. Grant
Have you ever read God Emperor of Dune?
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Also: White House Petition.
What’s to investigate? Just charge him the $1,000 fine and move on.
Well, there’s the question of jail time. As in, Why does David Gregory get to avoid worrying about it ever happening?
David Gregory hoisted with his own petard.
The facts:
1: David Gregory goes on tv to argue that we need MORE gun laws
2: David Gregory can not EVEN get through the segment without breaking an EXISTING gun law.
Even he should appreciate the irony, but that would take some intellectual honesty and character, neither of which he possesses.
Hey David, now that you are a proven GUN CRIMINAL, should you really be arguing that LAW ABIDING gun owners need to follow even more regulations?
And a full body cavity search and stripdown, conducted by ugly women police officers who laugh at his puny equipment. Any resistence to be met by repeated use of Taser.