Oh, Rob, I fail to see how this is a problem.

This, however, I believe, is:

“It is unlikely that Washington will get any new dealers, either. Federal licensing requirements mandate that would-be dealers meet local guidelines and zoning ordinances. Representatives of each of the district’s eight council wards said they would vigorously oppose a gun shop in their area.”

These, of course, are the same council representatives of a city that, of late, has taken Draconian measures, opposed by the ACLU, to try to decrease the painfully high crime levels. Counter-intuitive, to me, it seems, to grant the nanny state more powers, to the detriment of Constitutional rights (Fourth Amendment, perhaps), whilst fighting actively to deny Second Amendment rights that might help to alleviate crime problems, or, at least, to protect decent citizens from the perpetrators of such heinous acts.

That urbanist mecca that is Portland has more strip-clubs per capita than any city in the country. And full nudity, even with alcohol sales. No pasties required. Portland folks. It’s the goodiest two-shoes city around. DC used to be a city to have a good time in. Now it feels like an overly restrictive college campus. Is it any wonder that people over 26 seem to move out? This town doesn’t cater to adult tastes. Unless your idea of adult is lukewarm museums and lectures by policy wonks. That’s my idea of retirement. Someone else’s retirement.

The Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents is the Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., 17th chief justice of the United States.