Bill seeks to let residents keep guns for safety

The Washington Times ^ | May 20, 2005 | Derrill Holly

[mrsmith]

They should have named the law after prominent (deceased) Washington D. C. resident and Liberal gun control advocate Carl Rowan:

"The fate of being charged with illegal gun possession was not escaped
by Carl Rowan when the pro-gun-control columnist used a[n unregistered] .22 pistol to shoot a midnight intruder, who turned out to be a teenage skinny-dipper using his backyard pool. Mr. Rowan's sensational 1988 trial ended in a hung jury and he was not retried.
In his autobiography, Mr. Rowan said he still favors gun control but
admits being vulnerable to a charge of hypocrisy."
http://www.mcsm.org/moreuse.html

[onedirtyliberal]

I don't understand how these people are 'pandering to the gun lobby' when they merely want to see to it that a D.C. citizen's right to keep a firearm in their home for protection is made legal. Isn't it telling that there are still these 'gun deaths' (people killing and getting killed by one another, using firearms) in a place that doesn't allow guns? Hmm, gun control must not work. They'll never admit it.