Cities will pay a heavy price if handgun ban is overturned (BARF ALERT)

ajc.com ^ | 06/23/08 | Shirley Franklin

[Havok]

I hear that. The way these cases are turning out it looks like the US is about to burn.
Good think I got all my security squared away.

[mountainlion]

It is more dangerous to be in a gun control city than in Iraq and Afghanistan. The heavy price will be that the police will have to do their job without trampling the rights of the Innocent.

[Niteranger68]

There is only one way to interpret her views. She supports the right of criminals to not be challenged while committing a crime.

[tacticalogic]

The Constitution wasn’t written to protect the cities, or their treasuries.

[Exton1]

Notice how they have to use 29 years of numbers to pump them up. Why do they use 1976? This is when a lot of gun laws started to show up in the USA. All this shows is that gun laws increase crimes and murder because the victims could not defend themselves.
So this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Gun laws increased murder rates, which are used as a reason for more stringent gun laws.

[Dead Corpse]

If in their socialist push for ever more malum prohibitum laws they make me a felon, then may their Gods have mercy on them. For no one else will...

[Dead Corpse]

Politicians gain NOTHING from a problem solved.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This false connection was a cover story in TIME magazine about 25 years ago. It was the last time I picked up a copy of TIME.

[hiredhand]

We've heard this crap before. They've said this same thing about "assault weapons"....that IF they're allowed, that blood will run in the streets. They sound like the damned islamic extremists.

Statistically, it's past any point of even trying to argue that population centers which are armed have lower gun crime rates, and lower violent crime rates. The information if freely available from the FBI's own uniform crime reports, among other places. England is probably the best place for a "success story" of what happens when you totally ban public ownership of handguns. They created the perfect defenseless situation for criminals, not to mention the black markets for moving handguns. Gun crime went way, WAY up in the 36 months following that ban, and from what I understand (I'll have to check), it's still up. So go figure! If it failed for them, then why even try it here? Yeah...we all know the answer to that one. :-)

[hiredhand]

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Washington, D.C.'s handgun restrictions have led to one of the lowest suicide rates in the nation."

My favorite part of the article. Even if this is true (which I doubt coming from a liberal) does this little stat offset the fact that they are one of the murder capitals of the country?

[Dead Corpse]

Mr. Volk does some awesome work. Always to the point too...

[Antoninus]

Cities will pay a heavy price if handgun ban is overturned

Oh, so there will be even *more* murders in Philadelphia and Camden? I don't think that's possible without an actual shooting war going on.

[hiredhand]

I agree. I’m adding more of his work to my collection NOW. Dial-up users will hate me for this....eventually. :-)

[snoringbear]

“With the recent spate of 5-4 decisions coming down from this Supreme Court, I’m not optimistic about tomorrow’s ruling. I’m almost afraid to turn on the radio tomorrow.”

Yep, I am not optimistic either. I consider it a bad omen that the Supreme’s ruling has been put off for another day. It's my guess that the split is 4 to 4 with the gadfly Kennedy's vote still up in the air and there's probably some sort of compromise being concocted. It's hard to believe that he is a Reagan appointment. But anyway, I am afraid we are at the Mercy of Justice Kennedy...

[TYVets]

She supports the right of criminals to not be challenged while committing a crime.

The right of a criminal shall not be infringed while committing a crime.

[An Old Man]

When you are convinced that what is black is really white, this is what happens.

However, I do tend to agree with this part of the article,

"And city attorneys may find themselves spending as much time fighting lawsuits as they do fighting crime."

I might even pay for some of the legal fees myself.

Semper Fi
An Old Man

[Billthedrill]

Hmm...yeah, I remember this sort of story from the time when certain states were considering “shall-issue” CCW permits. “Blood in the streets,” “wild west,” “OK Corral,” “road rage carnage,” etc, etc - good grief, I could write their own copy for them in my sleep. And it never happened.

[skimbell]

"...The sign over the beautiful wrought iron gate declares: “NO FIREARMS ALLOWED!"...

Not quite. The sign states that "work makes you free".

[RJL]

If more evidence is needed that the stakes could not be higher, a steady drumbeat of headlines is supplying it.

Only in the biased liberal journalist's little mind are headlines written by the same now "evidence".