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icarusUS Supreme Court votes on Washington DC's handgun ban.
I lived in the DC area for ten years. I noticed that Washington DC had the largest number of murders in the US while the handgun ban was in place. DC is small. All anyone had to do was go across the river to Virginia where the laws were more lenient.
I forsee a lot of flag waving and breast-beating over a law that didn't work in the first place.
If I'm not mistaken, on a legal level this was less an issue about gun rights and more about state's rights and Washington DC's yet again fuzzy status as not-really-a-state.
I lived in the DC area for ten years. I noticed that Washington DC had the largest number of murders in the US while the handgun ban was in place. DC is small. All anyone had to do was go across the river to Virginia where the laws were more lenient.
I forsee a lot of flag waving and breast-beating over a law that didn't work in the first place.
If I'm not mistaken, on a legal level this was less an issue about gun rights and more about state's rights and Washington DC's yet again fuzzy status as not-really-a-state.
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Date: 2008-06-29 06:05 pm (UTC)It rankles me when the government just starts taking and taking rights that are not theirs by any stretch of the constitution.