According to the Washington Post (reg. req):
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.By a vote of 250 to 171, the House passed the D.C. Personal Protection Act, which would end the District’s 1976 ban on handguns and semiautomatic weapons, roll back registration requirements for ammunition and decriminalize possession of unregistered weapons and possession of guns in homes or workplaces.
The bill also would prohibit the mayor and D.C. Council from enacting gun limits that exceed federal law or “discourage…the private ownership or use of firearms.”
Of course the bill won’t pass, especially in a corrupt, broken-down city where the criminals run the show. I’ll have more to say on this later. In the meantime, read about what I think of DC’s gun ban.
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Let me relate a tale to you Re: DC and Guns
My wife and I recently relocated to Maryland from Ohio because she had a job offer we couldn’t refuse. We are renting an apartment and thus can not keep our greyhound until we get a house.
Luckily fo rus, there was someone in the Georgetown area who was willing to board our dog until we got a house. This was a very generous offer by complete strangers and for this we are thankful.
So we drive from Ohio to DC with our Greyhound and two smaller dogs (permitted in Apt.). My wife takes the dog, I take his crate and we go to the townhouse in which they live. I then go get the dogfood from our car which is parked about two blocks away, bring back the big bag to find the door is locked.
I sigh, and knock. From inside I hear someone say, “Oh, do you think that is your husband?” After saying yes, he walks to the door and asks, “Who is it?”
I left only a minute ago (the time it takes to walk a few blocks, get a bag of dogfood, and walk back. So finally I get let in and only then do I begin to notice that all the windows are barred, there is a second door making the foyer into an ‘airlock’, a security system, and three locks on one door and another on the interior.
Then I remembered DC’s gun laws. Coming from Ohio, I have a few guns of my own and I definately like to shoot. These peoples could not keep a gun and they needed to take other precautions because every criminal knows they do not.
The idea that people do not realize the connection, that they can not see that all the cliched statements are true: If you outlaw guns only criminals will have them, and if criminals know you have do not have them you ARE more of a target.
So these people sit inside their own jail, using caution in an almost fearful way when someone knocks at their door.
Then I read about home invasions. Home invasions do not happen in Ohio because… well, you might get shot. Ohio has people who break and enter, but they’d not be so foolish to do so when someone is there.
In DC they are all targets and it shows. Home invasions?!?!?!? I am still shocked.
Maryland is not much better, but at least I can keep what I have without the law coming down on me.
Anyhow, great writing, good points, and thanks!
La Shawn, Of course it passed the House, that is the true voice of America. Will it pass the Senate? Who knows what the elites will do. Likely, the democrats will institute a filibuster (history shows that nazis used the same kind of tactic when they were not in the majority). It will be interesting to see whether or not DC residents will be allowed to defend themselves from criminals again.
16 days and no assault weapon battles in the streets….
..no cops gunned down and no schools shot up.
By the way, has anyone looked at the murder rates in cities run by Democrat mayors and councils as compared to the number of deaths in almost two years in a WAR in Iraq? Things that make you go hmmmm.
ONLY 1,055 dead in Iraq, but look at how many have died in US streets under John Kerry’s boys: Can you say 3784…ALMOST 4000 dead in on year alone. Now lets do a standard extrapolation and that is 12,000 AMERICAN DEAD HERE AT HOME and the Donks are crying about Iraq and John Kerry is trying to sell us the Democrats are tough on crime and terrorism?
Murder Rates in Major Cities
city
2002 murders
population
# murders per 100000 people
New Orleans
258
473681
54.5
Washington
264
570898
46.2
Detroit
402
925051
43.5
Baltimore
253
638614
39.6
St. Louis
111
338353
32.8
Chicago
648
2886251
22.5
Philadelphia
288
1492231
19.3
Los Angeles
654
3798981
17.2
Houston
256
2009834
12.7
Boston
60
589281
10.2
New York
590
8084316
7.3
About all of these cities are run by…drum roll please…..DEMOCRAT MAYOR AND CITY COUNCILS!!! This is what you get when you take guns away from law abiding citizens and let habitual gun offenders back onto the streets. This is what happens when you let liberals sleaze their way onto the bench. This is what happens when you let Democrats have control. I predict these numbers to go down with the expiration of the “assault” weapons ban.
Ray Coleman
Tampa, FL
What ever the merits of the bill, the fact that D.C. citizens or their representatives have any say so over it is lame. So much for democracy.
DC voters outside the beltway aren’t exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer. They have the mental capacity of Corrine Brown district in Jacksonville or Cynthai McKinney’s distric in Atlanta. These people should not even be allowed to vote.
Hopefully people will one day have to qualify to vote.
Wow . . . that’s amazing. Once upon a time I thought guns should be banned. But thinking reasonably . . . banning guns doesn’t prevent criminals from getting guns – they will get it illegally if need be. So . . . what’s the reason for banning guns then?
Lola – Liberals are under the mistaken impression that people are actually good at heart; it’s the nasty guns that make them bad. If there were no guns, we’d allget along and liberals would have the socialist utopia they lust after.
I, not being a liberal, understand that people are basically bad to the bone. Consequently, the more a thing is forbidden, the more it is sought after. Criminals are named so for a reason: they commit crimes, i.e., they break the law. Law-abiding folks like myself will become criminals just like the criminals if we were to exercise our constitutional right to bear arms.
Backward city run by backward-thinking no-nothing bureaucrats.
I have a barbeque chicken bone to pick with whomever said this: “DC voters outside the beltway aren’t exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer.”
I beg to differ………..3 words: Councilman Marion Barry back in da house!!!
Okay, you got me – 7 words. The DC voter is still brillant. The blind leadin the blind. Wo-hooo!!!
And until something liberal changes, I shall never again live in the self-defenseless N.E. corridor of the United States – I’ll take 8 hurricanes, every year in Florida, til I’m floatin in the Atlantic Ocean.
What am I, a deer waiting to be hunted by some thug that just got outta Lorton Reformatory? What’s worse? Black thugs know that other blacks the least likely to be packin.
Not in the Gunshine state!! We love shooting criminals.
WE can’t have the great unwashed citizen to have a gun.
After all the only ones that can be trusted to carry guns are politicians, limosine liberals {movie stars} and the elite media.
They know what is good for us.
Beau,
Where you been? Hurricanes interfering with your web surfing time? I can always count on you to make me laugh hard enough that I’m in danger of fallin’ out of my chair
La Shawn,
From our past discussions, you know how I feel about this. I can imagine no legislation that might bring in check D.C.’s home invasion problem quicker than allowing law abiding citizens the right to protect themselves. As a cop, I know that when things are happening fast and furious, calling 911 accomplishes nothing more than allowing us to come clean up the aftermath. We cannot be everywhere at once, and even in small cities the average response time is not such that we can usually intervene while a crime is “in progress”.
If this gets past the Senate and gets signed into law, it will be a big step toward giving you D.C. dwellers a little more peace of mind. I’m sure though that the thought of this law going into effect is upsetting to some on the Council, especially Mr.Barry. After all, the risk portfolio of some of his closest friends would become untenable.
You are correct about Florida. Just to give you a hint of what a Florida neighborhood could look like? I live in a new development in Southeast Hillsborough County. Meet some of my neighbors. All within 1/1 mile of each other:
Me: Army Ranger 3rd Battalion/75th Ranger Regiment
Neighbors: 4 HCSO Deputies
Tampa PD
5th Group Special Forces
2 82nd Airborne
Marines
Airforce
SOCOM
CENTCOM
Receational hunters
In other words, jump bad in my hood if you want to. The difference between my neighborhood and one filled with thugs is that my neighbors have actually been trained to shoot STRAIGHT and they have REAL combat experience AND we can posse up in a heartbeat and be on the same sheet of tactical music to hunt your sorry behind down. Just ask the sicko prowler that found that out the hard way.
Gunshine state ? That’s brillant! I think I’ll start referring to Florida by that name instead of using the plywood state. Thank ya Beau.
Beau,
Is that why Rosie and her armed body gaurds moved down there?
“By a vote of 250 to 171, the House passed the D.C. Personal Protection Act, which would end the District’s 1976 ban on handguns and semiautomatic weapons, roll back registration requirements for ammunition and decriminalize possession of unregistered weapons and possession of guns in homes or workplaces”
Well, it preserves some of the restrictions on gun ownership near the workplaces of these politicians. Whats good for the rabble is apparently not good enough for them.
That’s why John F Kerry gets to own a chineese assualt rifle that he wants to ban the rest of us from owning
LOL
According to the Constitution, the Congress runs the District of Columbia; NOT mayor Nose Candy. Therefore, the bill is valid.
Plus, it’s the right thing to do. Gun grabbing laws, Bah!
“NOT mayor Nose Candy. ”
Who’s tony williams been brown-nosing lately?
Well, I like mayor bow-tie, but after Marion, I’d probably like almost anyone. And that’s just based on being a frequent visitor!
What ever the merits of the bill, the fact that D.C. citizens or their representatives have any say so over it is lame. So much for democracy.
The citizens of the D.C. voted for the gun ban. They did so, let them live (or not) with it. If they want to change the law, they can do so.
I don’t agree with the ban, but in that case, the people spoke.
Lock and load, LaShawn
Its about time that all gun control laws were repealed in this country and that includes the gun control law of 1968 and the brady gun law and nuts with what the liberal jerks have to say and that gose for ted kennedy and george soros as well
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