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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Post reports that the Janney mom killed by her husband was shot with a handgun.

Let’s be clear here:
This woman might well be alive today without the Republicans on the Supreme Court.

The Heller decision, written by Scalia and voted for by Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, and Thomas, rolled back the District’s ability to get handguns out of DC.

If this was a legal handgun, the shooter literally would not have had the gun without the Republican justices (and the billionaires that put them on the court by funding the Federalist Society).
If it was an illegal handgun, it still would be less likely for him to have it if Heller did not exist.  First, Heller made DC reticent about regulating guns.  And second, it’s easier for the cops to find illegal handguns if they know that every single handgun in DC is illegal.
(Re: 2nd amendment: it says “militia”.  And that was widely recognized before 1980.  Chief Justice Burger called the idea that 2nd A applied to individual rights a “fraud on the American public.”)

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My heart goes out to those kids and their Mom.  This is a terrible tragedy.

But the time to talk about gun control is now.  And we should not shirk from putting blame where it belongs.  The husband committed a terrible crime.  But conservatives helped.  The NRA helped.  Gun manufacturers helped.  And the Federalist Society and Republican judges helped.  That mother would be more likely to be alive today if Republicans didn’t use gun identity politics for votes.[/quote]

"Every single handgun" has never been unlawful to possess in DC.  The law requiring registration by a date certain and freezing new registrations after that exempted existing lawfully owned handguns.

Further, even during the years when DC froze registration of new handguns, there were exceptions, as for ex-police. And during all the years before Heller, non-criminals could buy and register long arms.

Further, how do you know that the handgun in question in fact was legally acquired and possessed?

Finally, are you really serious that somehow magically waving a giant gun-seeking magnet over DC would stop murderers? Murder was ubiquitous millennia before firearms were invented.

And you might want to research who the militia included.

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