Gun-Banning D.C. Idiots in the News

Associated Press via the Washington Post: District Residents Rally Against Repeal of Gun Ban

The D.C. Personal Protection Act would rescind existing prohibitions covering handguns and semiautomatic and automatic weapons. It would allow citizens to keep weapons in their homes and places of business. Versions of the measure pending in both the House and Senate would prohibit locally elected officials from passing future gun control legislation.

Obviously, this is a ploy by deranged gun-nut killers who want to see the bodies of innocent children piled high in the streets! Obviously, this is part of a concerted effort by fundamentalist militants absolutely determined to put a .357 Magnum in the hands of every person so they can darkly roam the streets at will, unloading pounds of lead into the perpetrator of the first slight against their warped and disturbed minds! Obviously, the people who want changes in the law like this want DEATH - and not just DEATH, but DEATH FOR ALL.

"Irresponsible extremists in Congress are trying to make the nation's capital a free fire zone," said Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.)

Fuck you and your straw man, Eleanor Holmes Norton.

"The bill will restore the rights of law-abiding citizens to protect themselves and to defend their families against murderous predators," said a spokeswoman for Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. "It is time to tell the citizens of the District of Columbia that the Second Amendment of the Constitution applies to them."

If the 2nd meant anything, the need for counter-active laws like the DCPPA wouldn't exist. Furthermore, if the people who wrote and who support this law gave a damn about what the 2nd means, they would rescind all the guns laws within their power to abolish. But, no. They don't operate on principle.

However, not everyone agrees. Jocelyn N. Williams of the Washington, D.C., Central Labor Council representing 150,000 union members in the region, said a repeal of the gun ban is not in the interests of residents, commuters or visitors.

"Twenty children and youth have been lost to gun violence this year, and more have been wounded," said Lori M. Kaplan, executive director of the Latin American Youth Center in the Columbia Heights section of the city.

Hey, Miss Kaplan! Seperate the "gun" from the "violence" and perhaps you have a point. Because guns cannot act; only humans do. Guns are not the problem. It's the aggressive freedom-denying thugs (like yourself) who are.

While the city's homicide rate has declined by 55 percent over the past decade, killings among young people have escalated in recent months. "Easier access to deadly weapons is not the answer to lowering the rate of violent juvenile death," said Kaplan.

Prior restraint against peaceful gun-owners doesn't answer the fucking question, either!

"So many young children in this city are losing their lives for nothing," said Marita Michael, the mother of Devin Fowlkes, 16, who died Oct. 30 after he was shot outside of Anacostia High School. Fowlkes was not the intended target of the 15-year-old found responsible for his death.

© 2004 The Associated Press

If your "nothing" is supposed to mean an individual's freedom to own property, then you've lost any sympathy with me.

Posted by Drizzten at September 27, 2004 08:13 PM