Democracy at work here at home

Here's a great example for the Iraqis on how democracy works - The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday repealing most of the District's gun laws, in a vote that handed an election-season victory to gun rights groups and was denounced by the city's leaders as a historic violation of home rule. Rep. Mark Edward Souder (R-Ind.), the bill's sponsor, called the vote a bipartisan victory for District residents' constitutional right to bear arms. But what about the right to representation in Congress? Or making your own damn laws? Congressman Davis from Virginia, a Republican by the way, had this to say: "No one should question the importance of keeping fully loaded assault weapons off the streets of the District," "There is an important place for debate on D.C. gun laws -- that is in the chambers of the D.C. Council, not the Congress."