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World Murder Capital May Repeal Handgun Ban

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 14 2004 1:08 AM

Submitted by AaronB. Edited By legionnaire.

A vote will be scheduled in this election season to repeal almost all of the Washington, DC gun laws.

Rep. Mark Edward Souder (R-Ind.) said House Republican leaders have promised him a vote before the Nov. 2 election on his proposed D.C. Personal Protection Act, which would end a ban on handguns in the nation's capital; remove a prohibition against semiautomatic weapons; lift registration requirements for ammunition and other firearms; and cancel criminal penalties for possessing unregistered firearms and carrying a handgun in one's home or workplace.

Though the bill has a lot of support in the house with some 228 co-sponsors, it's very unlikely the vote will pass the Senate.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congressional Delegate from Washington DC, has voiced her opposition, noting that this would also repeal the District's own assault weapon ban, citing the 2002 sniper attacks where 10 people will killed in the area.

Republican leaders have said that a vote will be scheduled for some time next month.

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f_a_hayek

Tucson, AZ

December 2003

SEP 14, 2004 01:57 AM

Eleanor Holmes Norton, Congressional Delegate from Washington DC, has voiced her opposition, noting that this would also repeal the District's own assault weapon ban, citing the 2002 sniper attacks where 10 people will killed in the area.

whole lot of good the ban did on that one....

do you think there might be a correlation between a ban on handguns and an enormously high crime rate? 9 out of 10 criminals prefer unarmed victims.

i'm all for self defense, but this is our capital, with congressmen scurrying about on the street to be harrased by michael moore. if i were packing and saw the rotund teddy kennedy across the street.......? scary. although on the flipside; no member has been knifed, punched, or hit with a tire iron (or hell, even been shot from someone illegaly carrying). DC could use some protection.

[Edited on Sep 14, 2004 by f_a_hayek]

f_a_hayek

Tucson, AZ

December 2003

SEP 14, 2004 01:57 AM

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[Edited on Sep 14, 2004 1:58AM]

lock

United Kingdom

December 2003

SEP 14, 2004 01:58 AM

A fly on the wall of the halls of power in Washington....
"Sir the firearms ban has been so sucessful that we are no longer the murder capital of the world."
"Oh shit and its an election year, we're screwed"
"I thought this was a good thing sir"
"Don't be a moron we have to change the 'Welcome to Washington' sign and the murder thing was all we had going for us, oh god oh god oh god, get out there and kill someone. Wait no I have an idea we'll repeal the handgun ban!, that'll get the blood flowing. Ok now you can go and kill somone."

stockula

Anchorage, AK

May 2003

SEP 14, 2004 02:00 AM

I thought Chicago was Murder Capital USA for 2 years running. (It has extremely stringent guns laws, in case you didn't know; tough gun laws seem to be a common denominator among cities with high rates of gun violence and murder).

s5

STAFF

San Francisco, CA

SEP 14, 2004 02:04 AM

and here i thought it was east palo alto, CA.

AaronB

Eden Prairie, MN

July 2004

SEP 14, 2004 02:05 AM

stockula said:
I thought Chicago was Murder Capital USA for 2 years running. (It has extremely stringent guns laws, in case you didn't know; tough gun laws seem to be a common denominator among cities with high rates of gun violence and murder).

That's true, but which came first Stock, the crime, or the gun laws.

Saying they're not working so we need to get rid of them is working backwards not forwards, how 'bout we make them stricter

cthav

Bridgeville, PA

August 2004

SEP 14, 2004 02:05 AM

AaronB

Eden Prairie, MN

July 2004

SEP 14, 2004 02:08 AM

as to the "murder capitol of the world" the republican in the article cited that 14 of the past 15 years DC has been the MCoW (my original headline quoted that, but it was changed) .

Dmntd

North Pole, AK

April 2004

SEP 14, 2004 04:45 AM

Gun laws are like Alarms on cars. They only keep the innocent, innocent.

wolfwood

Madison, WI

March 2003

SEP 14, 2004 05:37 AM

f_a_hayek said:
do you think there might be a correlation between a ban on handguns and an enormously high crime rate? 9 out of 10 criminals prefer unarmed victims.

And the other criminal is just stupid?

I don't know; I think Americans just have too many problems with violence and guns to be trusted with guns. And a whole bunch of people who probably don't know much about guns carrying guns around really doesn't make me feel safe. And anyway, there are other weapons besides guns.

wAxlips

Prospect Park, PA

April 2004

SEP 14, 2004 05:58 AM

I personally think we should go back to the age of swords....*sigh*

Tony1970

Titusville, FL

December 2003

SEP 14, 2004 06:00 AM

AaronB said:
Saying they're not working so we need to get rid of them is working backwards not forwards, how 'bout we make them stricter

hmm lets make a ban on handguns stricter...uhm we will ban them twice yeah that will work.

Mike

Titusville, FL

OLD SKOOL

SEP 14, 2004 06:03 AM

wolfwood said:

f_a_hayek said:
do you think there might be a correlation between a ban on handguns and an enormously high crime rate? 9 out of 10 criminals prefer unarmed victims.

And the other criminal is just stupid?

They are commiting a crime. How smart do you think they are?

legionnaire

United Kingdom

November 2003

SEP 14, 2004 06:41 AM

AaronB said:
as to the "murder capitol of the world" the republican in the article cited that 14 of the past 15 years DC has been the MCoW (my original headline quoted that, but it was changed) .

The headline was factually correct but was too long, so I shortened it. I figured people wouldn't make a big deal out of it - I guess I was wrong.