If FoxNews wants to be "fair and balanced", you'd think they would tell us what has happened in places like London where armed assaults are up, or perhaps quote John Lott whose More Guns Less Crime documents the benefits of an armed populace.
The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.--Justice George Sutherland
Got to love your screen name, the top military sniper of all time. 500+ kills in three months using iron sights and a WWI rifle :)
Well, they did. In the article, it mentions that the Washington DC ban had the effect of making it the murder capitol of the US as well as the political capitol.