Posted on 05/20/2005 8:49:00 AM PDT by neverdem
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
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.
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