Betcha Crime goes down if this passes.
Well - I think that is an awfully safe bet. Crime went up drastically AFTER the ban went into effect. Nothing like the comfortable feeling a criminal gets knowing that there victims are unarmed.
I'd look for a short spike in the number of dead bodies in the District, until the word really hits the streets that it's no longer open season on good guys. Watch for Marion Barry or some other idiot to bemoan the dead and dying punk population and immediately call for new and even more draconian legislation, local state and federal to put everybody on the same footing as DC.
Funny, I always thought Kay Baily Hutchinson was an anti-gun RINO. Maybe that was Christine Todd Whitman? The GOP Senator from New Jersey? Or was she a Governor?