Help D.C. Area Residents
The 1976 Washington, D.C. Gun Ban stripped the D.C. areas residents of their Second Amendment rights. A February 28, 2003 column By Robert Levy (http://www.cato.org/research/articles/levy-030228.html) which tells about an unsuccessful law suit to get their rights restored says, "For starters, no handgun can be registered in D.C. Even those pistols registered prior to the District's 1976 ban cannot be carried from room to room in the home without a license. Moreover, all firearms in the home, including rifles and shotguns, must be unloaded and either disassembled or bound by a trigger lock. In effect, no one in the District can possess a functional firearm in his or her own residence. The law applies not just to "Unfit" persons like felons, minors or the mentally incompetent, but across-the-board to ordinary, honest, responsible citizens." If you wake up to the sound of a thug or thief forcing their way into your home your not going to have time to get your weapon, unlock the trigger lock and load it before you are over powered by the intruder, and unless the police cruiser is parked right in front of your house forget about dialing 911. I don't mean to put the police down, but they can't be everywhere.
Two bills have been introduced in congress that would make it possible for D.C. residents to defend themselves. To read them go to, http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html and type in H.R. 1288 for the House bill or S. 1082 for the Senate version. Please contact your elected officials and urge them to support this legislation.
God Bless America, God Save The Republic.
Two bills have been introduced in congress that would make it possible for D.C. residents to defend themselves. To read them go to, http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html and type in H.R. 1288 for the House bill or S. 1082 for the Senate version. Please contact your elected officials and urge them to support this legislation.
God Bless America, God Save The Republic.
posted by David Schantz | 3:14 PM
9 Comments:
Done...email sent to Congressmen. I'm really gonna get on their nerves as much emails they get from me.
Thanks for the info.
Thats all people in DC need is more guns. Check out gun violence and crime statistics in DC and then tell me if people need to have more guns there. It'd be downright assinine to give people who commit lots of crimes even more means to do so.
Chris, Are you saying all or most of the D.C. area residents are criminals? Did you know that firearms are legally used about 2 million times a year by honest citizens to save lives? Many times when this happens the gun owner doesn't even fire a shot, thugs and thieves don't like to face armed citizens they turn and run.I know of a web site I hope you will take the time to check out, http://www.toptips.com/CrimeClock.htm . It is constantly being updated to show the number and types of crimes that are committed in the United States. It also shows the number of times firearms are legally used by private citizens for self defense.You suggested I check out the gun violence and crime statistics in D.C., I've done so many times in the past. It shows me the D.C. gun ban didn't work, the thugs and thieves are still armed and the honest citizens are victims.
God Bless America, God Save The Republic.
I didn't mean to imply that all the citizens were criminals at all (just the lobbyists on K Street ;-)).
While I recognize that DC does contain a lot of innocent victims from crimes that involve guns, I don't think offering a gun to the innocent is the best way to protect them. Gun accidents in the home are especially tragic, but my main reasoning is that you give people the idea that since DC isn't safe, you need a gun then.
Safety first, is what I say. When you give other innocents gun legally, the first problem is that their guns could be stolen from their home by the very criminals that they're trying to protect themselves from. Second, you create a legal gun market for those criminals to buy guns (assuming they find a seller who doesn't do background checks, etc.). Finally, you'll just increase the overall amount of gun deaths, and probably cause the gun violence in DC to grow even worse.
Protecting the people of DC is quite a noble cause, I just wish the House of Representatives would provide the DC police with the funds and forces necessary to impose the crime crackdown they're looking for.
I wanted to let you know that I have e-mailed my elected officials, United States Representative Sam Graves, and both of my United States Senators, Jim Talent and Kit Bond and ask them to support this legislation.
God Bless America, God Save The Republic
I think freedom should mean we're able to live free from the threat of a tyrannical government infringing upon the rights of the people, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." There are some more. How many would you be willing to give up?
God Bless America, God Save The Republic.
You might want to ask Randy Weaver or some of the surviving members of a Waco, Texas church about the United States government attacking citizens.
God Bless America, God Save The Republic
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You know, one government policy was to compensate shooters for giving up the sport. Approximately 25% of pistol shooters took this offer, and relinquished their licenses and their right to own pistols for sport for five years
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