Posted on 11/09/2005 7:00:49 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
True to their left-leaning reputation, San Francisco voters decided by a wide margin to ban the possession of handguns within city limits.
Proposition H makes it illegal for residents to keep handguns in their homes or businesses and prohibits the manufacture and sale of all firearms and ammunition in San Francisco. The City’s new ordinance will be the strictest in the nation, since it requires existing guns to be turned in to law enforcement officials by April 1. Law enforcement personnel and others who require weapons for work are exempt from the measure.
Supervisor Chris Daly, the author of the ballot measure, said the law was needed to reduce the number of guns in a city plagued by gun violence, with 88 homicides so far this year, about 60 percent of them by handguns, according to officials. Fewer guns in The City, according to Daly, means fewer guns for criminals to get their hands on.
“This is sensible gun control,” Daly said. “Prop. H isn’t going to solve violence in San Francisco, but it’s one part that we can do to get a handle on this epidemic of violence, most of it handgun-related.”
A coalition of organizations opposed to Prop. H, led by the National Rifle Association, have vowed they’ll be in court today to begin their legal challenge to San Francisco’s new law, arguing that cities do not have the authority to regulate firearms under California law.
“If you ban firearms, the criminals will have them and the law-abiding citizens won’t,” said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. “San Francisco will be a magnet for crimes.”
Gottlieb said he was involved in the legal effort that took down a 1982 measure banning guns in San Francisco, which was signed into law by then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein.
Daly said the new proposition was carefully crafted to avoid the same legal traps that allowed the courts to reject The City’s first gun measure.
Only two other major U.S. cities — Washington in 1976 and Chicago in 1982 — have implemented similar handgun bans. Unlike San Francisco’s ordinance, however, both cities permitted residents to keep guns owned when the ordinance went into effect.
San Francisco proves they are neither interested in defending themselves, nor their country, with yesterday's votes.
They will, however, lead in singing several choruses of "Kumbaya".
And look at how well it's worked for them! /sarc
When a politican says that banning something is: “This is sensible gun control,"
We are in trouble.
Voters also say yes to violent crime surge in San Francisco
Open season, easy prey.
I can just see the caravans of Bloods and Crips and the Latino gangs heading North to San Francisco to rob, kill and rape. Nothing to stop them.
Morons
So - What are they going to do now - Go door to door confiscating weapons? What a feel good joke.
The city of San Francisco will serve as an excellent object lesson in the consequences of gun control.
Didn't you read the article?...guns are illegal in SF...do you think the Bloods and Crips are going to break the law by bringing guns into a city where they're illegal?
When, oh when, is the "big one" finally going to take care of this problem.
“If you ban firearms, the criminals will have them and the law-abiding citizens won’t,” said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. “San Francisco will be a magnet for crimes.”
So - What are they going to do now - Go door to door confiscating weapons? What a feel good joke.
I wonder how they'll classify this little shorty?
"San Francisco Bans Guns,Women And Minorities Hit Hardest"
LOL
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