THE WASHINGTON POST’S Colbert I. King is unhappy that he can’t have his cake and eat it too.

Enacting D.C. voting rights legislation with a "poison pill" gun amendment [restricting D.C.’s absurd gun laws] attached would have been worse than winning ugly. It would have meant accepting the assertion that Americans in the District of Columbia don't have a fundamental right to representation in Congress ....

If D.C. residents really wanted voting rights, they’d exercise their right of retrocession and rejoin the state of Maryland. But they don’t, really; they’re “too important” to be mere citizens of Maryland.

They want to remain victims with special rights, so they continue to whine.