Stop the insanity

"We have one of the highest homicide rates in the country but at the same time have the strictest [gun] law."---Adrian Fenty, Mayor of Washington, D.C., January 2007

Mayor Fenty apparently doesn't see how one statistic directly causes the other, when it's as plain as day to anyone with a lick of sense.

Let's see. Handguns have been banned since 1976 with the exception of a few grandfathered weapons, and long guns must be kept unloaded and locked, even ones used for home defense. Sounds like Sarah Brady's version of Paradise. Why then, Mayor Fenty, is your homicide rate so high? Let me break it down for you, so as to make it easy for even you to understand: Criminals don't obey any laws, much less specific anti-gun laws, and you and your fellow muckety-mucks have provided those same criminals with a playground of unarmed citizens to rob and murder at will, without fear of someone fighting back.

Mayor Fenty and the D.C. City Council have decided to continue with their brand of insanity, and have appealed the U.S. Appeals Court decision striking down their city's unconstitutional gun ban to the U.S. Supreme Court.

If all goes well, the Supremes will not even bother to hear the case, or will hear it and rule against Washington, which will then force the city to lose its draconian gun ban. This will then hopefully precipitate a tidal wave of activism, prompting citizens who live in other socialist enclaves such as Chicago and New York City to agitiate for regaining their own lost liberties.

My father lives in D.C. I sure would like him to be able to defend himself from someone who breaks into his condo with the intention to do him harm, seeing as how he'll probably be on his own for that task. The Washington Times reported in 2004 that the average response time to the highest-priority calls was 8 minutes, 25 seconds. Of course, that's assuming that one can get through to 911 in the first place. Time it yourself sometime. 8 1/2 minutes is a long, long time when one is literally fighting for their life.

I hope that the D.C. government loses their Hail Mary bid big time, for the sake of my father and every other resident of the District.