D.C.'s murder rate has plummeted since gun verdict

[ericire12]

Sorry TAB:


http://biggovernment.com/jlott/2010/03/01/more-guns-less-crime/
http://www.saysuncle.com/2010/03/02/even-more-correlation/

The District of Columbia’s murder rate plummeted by an astounding 25 percent last year, much faster than for the US as a whole or for similarly sized cities. If you had asked Chicago’s Mayor Daley, that wasn’t supposed to happen. The Supreme Court’s 2008 decision to strike down DC’s handgun ban and gunlock requirements should have lead to a surge in murders, with Wild West shootouts.

[PegLeg45]

E Gads....Say it ain't so!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TAB]

The only direction it could go was down.

[fightingquaker13]

The only direction it could go was down.

Not true. Try living there in the late '80s, early ninties. My boss got gunned down in a stick up at a high end outfitters in NW. He died for a few Patagonia rain coats and five bills. My friend was in the back and could have taken them if she'd been allowed to bring her Ruger from her home in Maryland into the District. She wasn't, and we got to go to the funeral of a 32 year old guy with a two year old son, all the while hearing it described as yet more "gun violence" on local news.
FQ13

[tt11758]

The only direction it could go was down.

TAB, exactly how IS the view from deep inside your a$$?

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[Fatman]

TAB, exactly how IS the view from deep inside your a$$?

The only direction it could go was down. 

[ericire12]

The only direction it could go was down. 

I literally just typed the same thing and then had to delete it because I read yours

[bulldog75]

I just though they were culling the herd for us.

[fightingquaker13]

I just though they were culling the herd for us.

Till good folks get in the way. Back during the crack wars in DC ('86-'90) most folks who got shot knew why, OR they were standing next to, or lived across the street, or were on the bus with someone who did. Or, in my boss' case, ran afoul of a desprate idiot out for cash. It is exhibit A as to why gun control and prohibition are bad ideas.
FQ13 whose views on both these isues were pretty well hardened by going to a funeral when I was 20. I'll still listen to a well reasoned argument, but its going to take a hell of a lot of convincing for me to support prohibition or gun control. Getting to wash you friend's blood off the wall (literally) tends to have that effect. Sarah Brady and Bill Bennet can both kiss my ass.

[r_w]

It was Bush's fault.