{"id":12738,"date":"2009-07-17T05:49:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T10:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12738"},"modified":"2009-07-17T05:49:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T10:49:07","slug":"times-notes-dc-gun-owners-not-committing-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12738","title":{"rendered":"Times notes DC gun owners not committing crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, Jennifer Maas at the Washington Times<\/a> notices that one year after the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the decades-long ban on hand guns in the District, no legal owners of handguns have been accused of any gun-related crimes. Compared to the illegal gun owners who have commited about 180 murders over the last year and nearly 2000 illegal guns have been seized by police, according to the DC Metro Police<\/a>. <\/p>\n

During the year residents have been allowed to register guns, preliminary police statistics say violent crime and property crime have gone down citywide — a modest decline that even the most ardent gun rights advocate would have difficulty attributing to legal gun ownership. Police also say they have seized more than 2,000 illegal guns from D.C. streets in the last year.<\/p>\n

Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said the fears of gun-control advocates — that having more guns would lead to increased gun violence — were unfounded.<\/p>\n

“All the handgun bill people’s predictions have proved to be wrong,” Mr. LaPierre said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d point out that, not only were the gun grabbing crowd wrong about legal gun owners, they were also wrong about illegal gun owners. The Times claims that 500 guns were registered in the District, but police seized four times as many from criminals. Crimes are committed by people who won’t register their weapons. Funny how I have to make such an obvious statement.<\/p>\n

The District still has a way to go as far their restrictions go;<\/p>\n

Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said the District’s new gun regulations are “sensible.”<\/p>\n

“We think the District has adopted sensible gun laws. If every jurisdiction in the U.S. had reasonable laws and common sense laws … we would be fine with that sort of system,” he said.<\/p>\n

Litigation is pending over the gun restrictions the District implemented in the wake of the Supreme Court decision. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, if the Brady Bunch thinks DC’s laws are sensible, there’s room for improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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