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Putting more guns on the street in DC will not make anything better. DC may have the strictest gun laws, but the simple fact is that for more than 20 years it has had a subway system that lets anyone in DC zip out to either Maryland or Virginia, two states where guns are sold at department stores and shopping malls. DC is a petri dish of sociological problems and letting more people have guns means letting more of the problem people have guns. Not a very calming thought.

"Putting more guns on the street in DC will not make anything better. ...letting more people have guns means letting more of the problem people have guns."

Wow! You fail to consider that the "problem people" are currently forbidden to have guns (I assume that by "problem," you meant criminal, not black.)

Thus, allowing the honest citizens have guns in their homes and businesses for self defense would not allow any more "problem people" to have guns. After all, you make the case that the DC criminals already have easy access to guns even under the ban.

You also ignore the data showing that liberalizing gun possession (in the form of concealed carry) has even slightly reduced crime. If you were a criminal with a gun, would you want all your prey to have the right to be armed, or not?

I'm not sure why you're even reading this site, but as you have taken the step of being here, we might as well educate you.....

#1) The "problem people" already have the guns. They currently disobey the law, keeping and carrying guns. A new law allowing people to own and carry guns will only increase the number of LAW ABIDING people that carry (currently zero or slightly above.)

#2) I am sick of the blanket "guns in the street" straw man argument. It is as if there is no difference between a law-abiding citizen or a criminal, the statement indicts both. Let's get this straight: guns in the hands of criminals, bad; guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens, good. Can you explain to me why it would be bad to allow a law-abiding citizen to carry a gun?

DC may have the strictest gun laws, but the simple fact is that for more than 20 years it has had a subway system that lets anyone in DC zip out to either Maryland or Virginia, two states where guns are sold at department stores and shopping malls.

Sorry, but there is no way around it: Is it painful to type something that stupid? Can you not read what you just typed?

You say the wrong people are getting guns too easily, so we have to keep gun illegal or the wrong people might get them?

I am going to take an aspirin now. The stupidity of your argument is hurting me, I can't imagine what it is doing to you.

DC (or anywhere else) doesn't have ANY gun/arms laws, what they have is lots of illegal legislation. There's a big difference between chief Moose's state Maryland, and Virginia. Virginia has more guns and less crime.

Molon Labe!

Putting more guns on the street in DC will not make anything better. DC may have the strictest gun laws, but the simple fact is that for more than 20 years it has had a subway system that lets anyone in DC zip out to either Maryland or Virginia, two states where guns are sold at department stores and shopping malls. DC is a petri dish of sociological problems and letting more people have guns means letting more of the problem people have guns. Not a very calming thought.

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How stupid are you???

Honest men and women with firearms freed this country from elitist, socialist programs where the govt knows best.

The sad thing is my great great great great uncle died in the battle of the wilderness to allow you to spew your crap.

Son of the American Revolution