DC Gun Ban
To prove to some people I do have other stuff to talk about, we learn from Jeff that The House is pushing to repeal the unconstitutional DC gun ban:
A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives is supporting legislation that would repeal virtually all of the District’s gun restrictions, targeting one of the nation’s most stringent handgun bans while the presidential candidates are battling over gun limits.
Rep. Mark Edward Souder (R-Ind.) said House Republican leaders have promised him a vote before the Nov. 2 election on his proposed D.C. Personal Protection Act, which would end a ban on handguns in the nation’s capital; remove a prohibition against semiautomatic weapons; lift registration requirements for ammunition and other firearms; and cancel criminal penalties for possessing unregistered firearms and carrying a handgun in one’s home or workplace.
Souder’s bill also would deny the District’s elected officials “authority to enact laws or regulations that discourage or eliminate the private ownership or use of firearms.” The legislation has 228 co-sponsors, more than enough to clear the 435-member House.
The opposition says:
Norton said that repealing the District’s gun laws would worsen violence in the city, where 13 children have been killed by gunfire this year. She also cited the 2002 sniper attacks that killed 10 people in the region.
Given that DC has the highest murder rate in the nation and crime there is terrible, I think it’s safe to assume that the current plan isn’t exactly working.
September 14th, 2004 at 4:33 pm
The Washington Post calls the D.C. laws “gun bans” in the title of the article.
Eleanor Holmes Norton calls the D.C. laws “gun safety laws” in the article.
So when gun control advocates talk about “gun safety laws,” they really mean “gun bans”?
I thought so.
September 14th, 2004 at 6:31 pm
When the gun bans are lifted and the crime rate goes down, it’s going to be a beautiful thing.