Voters say no to firearms in San Francisco

San Francisco Examiner ^ | 11/09/05 | Bonnie Eslinger

[palmer]

Give it a year.

Give it a couple. It takes a while for criminals to adjust to the idea of disarmed victims. That first live break-in will be psychologically difficult. Give mayhem a chance. In any case the media will be trumpeting the beneficial results a year from now regardless of the actual results. But in 10 or 20 years it will be obvious like D.C.

[umgud]

Today's headline:
"San Francisco Bans Guns,Women And Minorities Hit Hardest"

Tomorrow's headline;

California reelects Gray Davis, bans handguns statewide, raises taxes on evil rich, mandates free healthcare, .....

[TCats]

"Did San Francisco have handgun registration?"

Don't know but CA, in general, has been anti-gun for a long time so I wouldn't doubt some record is present that would enable a mass confiscation.

[NRA1995]

Same tired old flawed logic.....too bad a whole city is stupid enough to buy into it....

[Mr. Jeeves]

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.

There aren't many gun owners in San Francisco now. Things won't change noticeably.

If there's one thing a devout, wealthy San Francisco liberal won't tolerate, it's an unfamiliar dark face walking around his or her neighborhood.

[Mister Da]

I predict bus ridership into SF will double, as will the price of a cemetery plot!

[Dan from Michigan]

I'm glad the ban passed. Maybe it will wake us all up to the fact that the gun grabbers are still at it.

[NRA2BFree]

"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."

This may be the case that makes it to the Supreme Court. This is a violation of the Second Amendment, and someone is going to sue to keep San Francisco from violating their Constitutional rights!! I hope Judge Alito is on the bench when it arrives at the SC. We can't let San Francisco get away with this because other cities are going to follow suit.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Surprisingly, many good little sheeple will willingly give up their handguns because of this.

[stevio]

I guess that's one way of looking at it.

[Ladysmith]

Just chalk it up to another city I'll never visit.

[R. Scott]

$145! I do wonder about the 6.5” barrel – illegal in many States. Virginia bans the possession of “sawed off shotguns” with a barrel length less than 18”, but there could be exclusion – “originally designed as a shoulder weapon”. The Super Shorty wasn’t designed as a shoulder weapon – and if the barrel isn’t from a Mossberg and is manufactured in house it might get by.

[rellimpank]

--exactly. When I lived there twenty-five years ago, mention of gun ownershop or -gasp- NRA membership would get you out of a conversation about as soon as mentioning voting for Reagan--(I'm not kidding)--

[TC Rider]

I wonder if any of the San Fran newspapers will allow me to place an ad, offering to store citizen's handgun in my North Carolina gun safe?

[apackof2]

“"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined or determined to commit crimes. Such laws only make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assassins; they serve to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson 1764 letter and speech

[apackof2]

LOL

[Calpernia]

Vote Early, Vote Often
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1518679/posts

[kittymyrib]

Good...I hope that some of our Texas crooks who can read English will be moving to SF shortly, where they can ply their trade with much less risk.

[R. Scott]

So if some politically minded LE supervisor has time on his hands, and happens to have a list…

[Blood of Tyrants]

All they have to do is give a deadline for turning them in and a lot of people will willingly give them up. Make just a couple of highly publicized raids and the sheeple will rush to disarm themselves, never realizing that they have just been victimized by the government.