Beer and Guns in the East

Sandra Seegers is running again in nearby Ward-8 to unseat the infamous Marion Barry. Say this about "S.S.", as she likes to be called, she knows something about fighting crime. She believes rightfully that the Supreme Court got it right when they overturned the DC gun ban and affirmed DC residents right to bear arms. Seegars says that, "As soon as we get a gun dealer, I'm going to buy a gun." Me too.

She's also been one of the more vocal opponents of a bill to ban the sale of single beers in Ward 7 & 8. The bill is an attempt to deal with public drunkeness and littering. She notes that it discriminates against people who can't afford a six-pack. It does. It also won't work. Public drunkeness and littering may actually be worse as beer drinkers buy, drink, and discard six instead of one. And as someone who picks up nearly a garbage bag of trash each week around his house, trust me. Its not just the beer bottles that are the litter problem. Its the KFC baskets, the candy wrappers, and just today, some kids crocs. We need more people who will throw their trash in metal cans or those men in blue suits that you see in other parts of the city. We don't need the DC city government telling us that we have to buy six-packs instead of singles.