Times notes DC gun owners not committing crimes
This morning, Jennifer Maas at the Washington Times notices that one year after the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the decades-long ban on hand guns in the District, no legal owners of handguns have been accused of any gun-related crimes. Compared to the illegal gun owners who have commited about 180 murders over the last year and nearly 2000 illegal guns have been seized by police, according to the DC Metro Police.
During the year residents have been allowed to register guns, preliminary police statistics say violent crime and property crime have gone down citywide — a modest decline that even the most ardent gun rights advocate would have difficulty attributing to legal gun ownership. Police also say they have seized more than 2,000 illegal guns from D.C. streets in the last year.
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said the fears of gun-control advocates — that having more guns would lead to increased gun violence — were unfounded.
“All the handgun bill people’s predictions have proved to be wrong,” Mr. LaPierre said.
I’d point out that, not only were the gun grabbing crowd wrong about legal gun owners, they were also wrong about illegal gun owners. The Times claims that 500 guns were registered in the District, but police seized four times as many from criminals. Crimes are committed by people who won’t register their weapons. Funny how I have to make such an obvious statement.
The District still has a way to go as far their restrictions go;
Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said the District’s new gun regulations are “sensible.”
“We think the District has adopted sensible gun laws. If every jurisdiction in the U.S. had reasonable laws and common sense laws … we would be fine with that sort of system,” he said.
Litigation is pending over the gun restrictions the District implemented in the wake of the Supreme Court decision.
Yeah, if the Brady Bunch thinks DC’s laws are sensible, there’s room for improvement.
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
STOP THE PRESSES! This, some journalistic truth, from the WaPo!! There must be a retraction!!
Quick. get me the smelling salts, I think I’m going to faint. This is the most unheard of thing I ever heard of.
Jonn wrote: It was the Times, not the Post.
Don’t break out those smelling salts just yet. They’re still saying that there are going to be shootouts all over Tennessee because of their new law allowing carry inside restaurants and bars that serve alcohol. They’re also, after years of claiming the “terrorist watch list” is an inaccurate fraud, saying that the people on that list should be denied Second Amendment rights despite never having been convicted of a crime.
Even in this article, the focus is on the fact that the decline in crime is statistically insignificant and cannot be used by “gun rights advocates” to claim that the increase in legally owned firearms has caused a decrease in crime. If they had integrity, they’d be reporting on the inverse: How the anti-freedom crowd, who predicted shootouts at traffic accidents and in the streets when people bump into one another, have been utterly refuted. Again.
Actually, B Woodman, this article was from the Washington Times, not the Post. They are a lot better at being neutral in reporting.
One of the items about guns that always gets to me is the recurrent theme that those of us who can legally obtain guns somehow provide them to bad guys – like in the case of all the supposedly US purchased guns in Mexico. Since legal purchases require records and such, it surely seems to me that if I regularly purchased guns in NJ (where they just passed a one handgun per month law to stop this kind of thing) for gang bangers, and one of those guns was recovered by police, you can bet that they would be at my door the same day to find out how the gun got from me to the gangster. And if it was a regular deal, they’d be talking to my gun shop supplier as well. Funny how you just never see the follow-up arrests to this so-called common problem in the news.
“like in the case of all the supposedly US purchased guns in Mexico.”
‘Specialy the RPGs, mortars, & 40mm grenades I’ve seen on TV… Kinda funny how the serial numbers & origins of the full auto AK-47s aren’t given!
See? This is what really annoys me. As FrnakJ wrote in 2005
http://www.imao.us/archives/003003.html/
They keep promising that every relaxation of gun laws will lead to the wild west.
If people are allowed to carry concealed, it will be just like the Wild West. If the assault weapons ban expires, it will be just like the Wild West (‘cept with assault rifles). And I’ve always been like, “Yay! The Wild West!” and I imagine myself strolling through town in a poncho, and, as soon as someone looks at me funny, I take a puff of my cigar and then sweep the poncho over my shoulder to reveal the six-shooter at my hip. But, so far every time I’ve done that, people laugh at my poncho, and, when I reveal my gun, the police get called. I tell them, “But I was told it was like the Wild West now!” but they just beat me with nightsticks and handcuff me. Anyway, if you want more details, talk to my lawyer.
I should have listened to FrnakJ and not the Brady Foundation.
So anyway, does anybody want to buy a slightly used poncho, hat and size 10 1/ boots (with spurs)?
I’ve got the hat and boots. Don’t need the poncho. Sorry.
Could use a single-action Army, though….. 🙂
“Yay! The Wild West!” The “wild west”, crime wise was actually the mild west. Criminals were dealt with swiftly and many a community resisted becoming organized townships so they didn’t have to bother with goobernmental bureaucraps when dealing with the few criminals that turned up from time to time.
Most people left their doors unlocked & a note on the cubbard to strangers saying “help yourself to some eats, but please feed the chickens.” If a visiting traveler brought books, newspapers, or (drum roll) a Sears catalog, they were treated like visiting royalty.