I want a handgun in my home!
Can we at least talk about why as a law abiding DC resident, with no criminal record and no small children in my home, I can’t own a handgun?
DC elected officials have vowed to fight an appeals court ruling that shoots down part of the city’s tough hand gun ban. The court says that prohibiting citizens from owning handguns in their private homes is in violation of their constitutional right to bear arms….
Currently, with the exception of law enforcement officers, practically no one is permitted today to buy and possess a gun …and yet the District remains one of the most violent big cities in the world…
Metropolitan Police Department facts pulled from their website show that by the end of 2005 and 2006, homicides were down by 14 percent, but the number of people killed for both years still totaled 365. The telling statistic is really the assaults with a dangerous weapon. 90 percent of those assaults occurred with a gun. In 2005… 3,335 assaults took place….in 2006 the numbers had barely changed--3,322. Those numbers represent real people coming face to face with a real gun. How many of those people might be dead today had their assailants been better shots?
Robberies are also committed with guns. That’s 4,063 robberies in 2005 and 3,878 robberies in 2006... Down by only 5 percent.
My gun would stay in my home and would only be used should an intruder invade my space and threaten my family. But more to the point, I’m counting on any possible intruders avoiding my place because they will think, “That Bruce Johnson probably has a gun in there and would use it if necessary”.
Most of the violence in this town occurs in the streets, late at night or early in the mornings. I try not to be out at those times and wouldn’t be packing even if I were in the streets. But the criminals wouldn’t be so certain that I was unprotected would they? So the Appeals court ruling and my buying a gun shouldn’t be a problem for city officials. Their problems remain the same. How to get those illegal guns, now in the hands of criminals, off the streets.
A national ban on handguns would help. But how likely is the Congress going to tackle that debate? Probably when hell freezes over!
posted by 9NEWS NOW Blog @ 12:32 PM
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Gun control laws only stop law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves and enjoying gun sports. My mother just showed a gun to 3 would-be attackers (on 3 separate occasions) when I was a child, and they became polite and backed off. Those stories--the vast majority--never make it into the press.
In countries where gun control has been law for years (more than 10 in Australia), scientifically designed studies show no significant change in gun-related deaths over time. Where guns are banned, a black-market cottage industry rises up to manufacture, ship, and sell guns to criminals, while law-abiding citizens have no means of defense other than calling 911, which has been proven to be ineffective to stop crime.
In the U.S., anti-gun activists seek to limit access to guns based on features that make them accessible to women, people of short stature, and people with disabilities, such as telescoping and folding stocks and thumbholes (routinely used on target firearms used by hobbyists).
In Sweden, sound suppression is completely legal and people do not have to wear hearing protection as they do in the U.S., even when shooting indoors.
How dare U.S. lawmakers bar law-abiding citizens from owning and using home protection and sporting guns, or using sound suppression to protect their ears.
Anti-gun activists seek to formulate complex lists of law-abiding citizens who own guns, while doing little to actually stop criminals.
Elitism, sexism, and racism come to mind when I hear about any effort to control home defense and sporting guns or protect gun hobbyists' ears with sound suppression.
Many sly attempts are surfacing nationwide to have common firearms reframed as "assault weapons" so they can be banned and grabbed.
It's time to tell the truth and start trusting law-abiding citizens and honoring their 2nd amendment rights.
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