More gun control – that’s what we need

A recent Metro DC Police Department report announces that 901 of 1126 homocides in the District were committed with firearms. The District has banned firearms outside of residences since 1974. In the same story, the Washington Times cites that Atlanta has 10% fewer gun-related homocides with a less-restrictive gun ownership policy. Ain’t that funny?

As a recent resident of DC, I owned two rifles which stayed inside my home, in compliance with local laws. The law also requires that those firearms must be disassembled – I may or may not have been quite so compliant in that regard.

When we first moved there, one of the most violent and crime-ridden neighborhoods in the country, I announced to all of my neighbors and anyone else in my neighborhood that I owned rifles with large capacity magazines. Although many of those neighbors became the victims of various crimes, I remained untouched by the criminal element for seven years. Coincidence? The only time I was ever assaulted was at the subway station where I couldn’t (and didn’t) have a gun.

Of course, that idiot police chief Ramsey, who never seems to be at fault for anything, blames Virginia and Maryland gun laws for the crimes that plague DC. Everyone knows that criminals will only buy guns legally from gun stores and file the neccessary paperwork and wait the mandatory time period.

Idiots run the District and I don’t see it changing much with Adrian Fenty as Mayor.

Category: Politics