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06/16/2019 17:08

Subject: Re:We shouldn’t have to live this way.

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Anonymous wrote:Any shotgun can be a deadly weapon if misused.

A person can literally make the ammunition for a black powder firearm at home.

How does registering any firearm prevent crime? If it is so effective, why has DC had so much violent crime when it has had gun registration since the 70's?

The fundamental premise of "gun control " uniformly is that more and more laws somehow will result in less crime, but that never happens because, by definition, criminals do not obey the law. Instead, decent people have their freedom abridged.

Endless debates about fanciful "solutions" does not move the ball down the field. Nor does the positing of practically and legally unenforceable draconian fantasies, especially those formulated with absolutely no understanding of how firearms work, what the present status of the law is, and what the actual utility of firearms is.

Decent people should not be deprived of the efficacious means of self defense because criminals misuse firearms.

What should we be doing to criminals to prevent them from misusing firearms and otherwise committing violent crimes?

This all or nothing argument is what got is where we are. You don’t get to tell me I don’t get to have a conversation about how to protect myself from a dangerous thing just because I don’t understand the inner workings of it.

Guns need more common sense regulation, not less. More restrictions on purchasing, ownership, usage, storage, and fitness of the owner. Decent people who want to ensure only decent people have access to dangerous weapons will surely want to have a respectful and reasoned conversation with other citizens to make sure that we have safe and effective laws that keep guns from criminals.

Respectful and reasoned. "Common sense." Safe and effective. Of course.

DC has at least the following gun laws:

1. All firearms must be registered.
2. Unlawful to possess unregistered firearm.
3. Unlawful to possess ammunition without registered firearm. No purchase of ammunition without registration certificate.
4. Lengthy list of banned long guns by name and/or characteristics.
5. Specified list of handguns allowed -- no "Saturday Night Specials."
6. Unlawful to carry firearm openly.
7. Unlawful to carry pistol without a license.
8. Training with actual target exam required for license.
9. Places where licensed pistol can be carried highly restricted.
10. Ammunition carried with licensed pistol extremely limited.
11. No open or vehicular long gun carry.
12. No possession of firearms or ammunition by minors, prohibited persons (felons, drug users, violent mentally ill). Straw purchases unlawful.
13. No private sale of firearms. Only one licensed dealer in the City. No out of state, internet or mail order sales.
14. Prepurchase safety training.
15. Background check on all purchases, including mental health records.
16. Longstanding (at least the 1970's) limit to 10 round magazine capacity.
17. Negligent firearm use unlawful
18. Criminal firearm use unlawful.
19. Use of firearm in crime of violence, drug crime, etc., unlawful.
20. Discharge of firearms (other than self defense) prohibited in DC.

If all of these have failed to prevent criminal violence, what will do that, as opposed to sounding good or making someone "feel" safer while doing nothing to punish or deter the ruthless thugs who seem to act with impunity in the face of all existing restrictions?

Dc has less criminal violence than many cities.

What are you producing as the alternative?

Less criminal violence? In the approximately 200 days thus far this year, DC has had over 1,700 incidents of violent crime (homicide, rape, assault with deadly weapon, robbery), nearly 8 per day. Hardly the utopia presented in advocacy to take rights from decent people in the fantasy/hope that this will somehow prevent crime by outlaw thugs who respect no authority beyond themselves.

Alternative: lock them up; keep them locked up. Stop bargaining away violent crime charges. Declare habitual criminals unfit to live in a civilized society and put them away, at least until they are so elderly they no longer represent a threat. Punish criminals, not decent people.

Anti-violence programs to explain to young people who actually may not know better that criminal violence is not the way to handle things and provide them with training in effective alternatives.

Social pressure on television, film, print and music producers to stop glorifying violence in the guise of "action," normalizing and endorsing violence as a way of life.

Hold men strictly accountable for producing offspring they then abandon.