Posted by Kromey at 2:26pm Jun 29 '10Washington isn't really relevant ... since guns were available in the surrounding states
Washington is perfectly relevant to this discussion about the Court's decision against the Chicago gun ban, given that the city bans guns but the state it is within does not -- you can simply drive outside the city limits, buy a gun, and (illegally) drive it right back in. Which means that only the criminals who don't care that their gun is illegally within Chicago's city limits are armed, whereas the overwhelming majority of their victims are unarmed.
"Gun control has not worked in Washington D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed." -- Lt. Lowell Duckett, Special Assistant to DC Police Chief; President, Black Police Caucus, The Washington Post, March 22, 1996
I don't think there'll be a return to the Wild West or shootouts or anything - to be honest lumping pro gun control people in with that is a bit like saying you must be a religious fundamentalist talk show nutcase because you're conservative and so are they.
It was your assertion that overturning the gun ban was "sad news" and that "more people will die" as a result. The implication being that you believe more guns will result in more violent crime, when in fact the statistics show that more guns correlate to less crime.
Washington is perfectly relevant to this discussion about the Court's decision against the Chicago gun ban, given that the city bans guns but the state it is within does not -- you can simply drive outside the city limits, buy a gun, and (illegally) drive it right back in. Which means that only the criminals who don't care that their gun is illegally within Chicago's city limits are armed, whereas the overwhelming majority of their victims are unarmed.
"Gun control has not worked in Washington D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed." -- Lt. Lowell Duckett, Special Assistant to DC Police Chief; President, Black Police Caucus, The Washington Post, March 22, 1996
I don't think there'll be a return to the Wild West or shootouts or anything - to be honest lumping pro gun control people in with that is a bit like saying you must be a religious fundamentalist talk show nutcase because you're conservative and so are they.
It was your assertion that overturning the gun ban was "sad news" and that "more people will die" as a result. The implication being that you believe more guns will result in more violent crime, when in fact the statistics show that more guns correlate to less crime.
Re: Washington isn't really relevant ... - Kromey