Heller case Amicus brief
The heart of the Heller case Amicus brief is on pp. 20-61 (very short pages).
The absurdity of the Washington DC gun ban thrown out by the Supreme Court last week is contained in these facts:
The year before the ban was enacted in 1976, about 60,000 guns were legally registered in DC. But less than one-half of one percent of DC crime guns seized by the police were registered.
In other words, the intended effect of the law was to disarm the entire population of legally-registered gun owners, due to misuse of a gun by a miniscule proportion of those registered owners. The misusers of the other 99.5%+ of crime guns did not register their guns, and they were therefore unaffected by the ban.
Well, not really unaffected. With the law-abiding population disarmed and defenseless, the life of the criminal (including lethally abusive husbands and boyfriends) became correspondingly easier and less risky. The DC murder rate subsequently tripled, from 26.8 per 100,000 in 1976 to 80.6 per 100,000 in 1991.
Liberal social policy at its finest.
Byron
The absurdity of the Washington DC gun ban thrown out by the Supreme Court last week is contained in these facts:
The year before the ban was enacted in 1976, about 60,000 guns were legally registered in DC. But less than one-half of one percent of DC crime guns seized by the police were registered.
In other words, the intended effect of the law was to disarm the entire population of legally-registered gun owners, due to misuse of a gun by a miniscule proportion of those registered owners. The misusers of the other 99.5%+ of crime guns did not register their guns, and they were therefore unaffected by the ban.
Well, not really unaffected. With the law-abiding population disarmed and defenseless, the life of the criminal (including lethally abusive husbands and boyfriends) became correspondingly easier and less risky. The DC murder rate subsequently tripled, from 26.8 per 100,000 in 1976 to 80.6 per 100,000 in 1991.
Liberal social policy at its finest.
Byron
posted by Byron | Monday, June 30, 2008
1 Comments:
As a former resident of DC, Amen.
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