Handgun control out in D.C.
Washington D.C. residents can now legally own handguns, and they are no longer required to maintain the firearms in their homes in a disassembled and locked condition. From the AP story…
A federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia’s long- standing handgun ban Friday, rejecting the city’s argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias.In a 2-1 decision, the judges held that the activities protected by the Second Amendment “are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual’s enjoyment of the right contingent” on enrollment in a militia.
The ban on owning handguns went into effect in 1976.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit also threw out the district’s requirement that registered firearms be kept unloaded, disassembled and under trigger lock.
In 2004, a lower-court judge told six city residents that they did not have a constitutional right to own handguns. The plaintiffs include residents of high-crime neighborhoods who wanted the guns for protection.
“The district’s definition of the militia is just too narrow,” Judge Laurence Silberman wrote for the majority Friday. “There are too many instances of ‘bear arms’ indicating private use to conclude that the drafters intended only a military sense.”
The crime index rate in D.C., when the law was first enacted in 1976, was 7083.5. At no point since the law was enacted has the crime index rate dropped below that level. In fact, it continued to rise steadily and remain above that index rate every year through 2003. Only in 2004 and 2005 did it drop below the baseline level of 7083.5.
Obviously, this gun control did absolutely nothing to improve the crime rate. In fact, one could argue that it had an opposite effect. Hey, when even an acknowledged liberal (and drug user) Marion Barry calls for an end to the repressive gun-control law, you know it had to have been a bad idea.
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