Posted on 06/26/2008 1:36:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There's one group of District residents absolutely unfazed by today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling shooting down the District's strict handgun ban: the dudes who have been blowing away their fellow citizens with abandon since the law was put on the books 32 years ago.
Operating under the notion that it's better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission, our shooters long ago decided not to wait for the high court's thoughts on the matter. They simply arrogated to themselves the right to keep and bear arms and, with that right, license to shoot and kill, with impunity, whatever and whenever the evil spirits moved them.
The record will show that our home-grown shooters have blown through the city's so-called strict handgun ban like John Riggins going up the middle. Over the past 20 years, there have been more than 6,500 homicides in the nation's capital, most committed with firearms, predominantly handguns. In 1976, the year the ban was put in place, the District had 135 gun-related murders, according to CNN. Last year, the number reached 143. Thus far this year, we've had 85 murders.
You thought D.C. stands for "District of Columbia? "Dodge City" is more like it.
If D.C. street thugs are pleased by anything, it's probably the fact that five of the justices -- a slim majority, but that's all it takes to win -- have come around to seeing things their way.
But if our murderers are blasé, city leaders have no cause to be nonplussed by the ruling.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
If the Post does not see the irony of their own words, who can explain it to them through the fog?
What a complete liberal ass. Thugs ignored the DC ban, but law-abiding citizens were disarmed.
It's not in the District BTW, but Virginia where guarding your stuff has always been lawful.
I was about to say, he is right.
At the end of his article there could be a /S and it would make a lot more sense to me.
And his own statistics show that murders have INCREASED with the 1976 ban.
What a maroon.
When I think of this writer, I have a stereotypical image of a pear-shaped liberal male...round glasses...idiot...
I submitt that the thugs have the most to loose...now they can’t break into a home without the fear (All be it small) that the little old lady behind the door may be packing!
IOW, criminals don't obey laws and haven't for 32 years..............He undermines his own argument with his first sentence.............
Author appears to be getting roasted in the comments. Might make for some fun reading there
Where ya been?..............Haven’t seen that duck for a loooong time!.........
Suck on it Colbert. It’s the law of the land.
And that was during the 'ban'.
So in other words, when guns are outlawed only outlaws have guns? At least the rest of us can now legally defend ourselves... or so say the “deciders”.
He sure did. I don't believe for a minute he is that ignorant, but rather, just trying to repeat the lies often enough.
Um...that was my thought too. Do they not realize they just made OUR point by saying that thugs ignore the law?
Idiots.
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