Posted on 09/22/2013 2:27:03 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
After Mondays shootings at the Washington Navy Yard in Southeast D.C., District Mayor Vincent Gray is calling for members of Congress to enact stronger federal gun control laws. ....
Gun violence is a sad fact of life in America, and in the District, Gray says. But its not a fact we have to live with forever.
How many more tragedies whether at a military installation just blocks from the Capitol last week, or in a movie theater in Colorado last year or on the streets of our nations cities every day how much more senseless tragedy do we have to endure before we enact common sense gun legislation? he asked.
(Excerpt) Read more at washington.cbslocal.com ...
Look to Chic-Congo and NYC and adopt their draconian gun laws work so well.
Stuck on stupid.
Attacking the wrong problem.
The U.S. is third in murders throughout the world. If you remove Chicago, Washington, D.C., New Orleans and Detroit then the U.S. is fourth from the bottom. These are four cities with the toughest gun laws in the nation and, of course, these are four cities ruled by Democrats.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3067517/reply?c=55
Aren't dozens or hundreds of individual shootings just as bad?
Isn't Detroit still in Michigan?
Disarm the thugs not the citizens
Sensible ... and gun control in the same sentence. Now that’s funny. At what point do these people suspend their common sense and think criminals will magically decide to obey these laws while preparing to break others?
Crime is down in Michigan at the same time gun ownership is up.
Yes there are a lot of shootings in Detroit but Detroit leads the nation in justifiable homicide (defensive shootings)
So, now they want to regulate firearms they always said they would not regulate, the ordinary shotgun.
Toldja so!
Your gun control is what killed many of those people. Let our troops be armed !
Someone should tell the Mayor that what DC really needs is thug control.
Oh crap, DAT’S RACISS!
We do need sensible gun control, and that is what range time is for: trigger control, breath control, sight picture, and follow through are the four crucial parts of sensible gun control.
I believe the stats show that it would be safer to have Black-free zones than gun-free zones.
Just saying.
What we need Mr Governor is sensible access to mental health treatment.
There is nothing sensible about banning firearms, about creating gun free zones. Time and again the disarmed citizen is butchered by a criminal who breaks any and all [ineffectual] gun laws at will.
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