Washington D.C. - House votes to end D.C. gun control restrictions.

[ericire12]

http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080918/NEWS03/809180332

WASHINGTON – The District of Columbia can’t limit the guns its residents buy and own, including semiautomatic weapons, the House voted Wednesday.

Legislation pushed by Rep. Mark Souder, R-3rd, was adopted 266-152 with 85 Democrats joining 181 Republicans in voting “yes.”

The bill, which the Senate is not likely to act on this year, would repeal the D.C.’s semiautomatic handgun ban and overturn a city law requiring that firearms kept in the home be locked and inoperable. It would allow residents to buy guns from licensed dealers in Maryland and Virginia and repeal some registration requirements

On Tuesday, the council voted to allow residents to own most semiautomatic pistols and removed the requirement that weapons be stored unloaded and disassembled or secured with trigger locks.

“Washington, D.C., has been the murder capital of the United States 15 of the last 19 years, and the other four they were in the top three. Let’s don’t act like what we are doing is making it dangerous in this city.”

[Hazcat]

Paul Helmke, former Fort Wayne mayor who now heads the nation’s largest gun-control organization, said the bill “will endanger public safety in a city that is already a target for terrorists.”

Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said it “will allow dangerous people to stockpile dangerous weapons, and it will make it harder for the people of D.C. to combat gun violence in their community.”

So law abiding citizens are "dangerous people"?

[ericire12]

So law abiding citizens are "dangerous people"?

Talking points

[Hazcat]

Talking points

Wouldn't it be nice if a reported actually did his job and asked the obvious question "So Mr Helmke, as this law only applies to law abiding citizens are you calling them dangerous?"

[deepwater]

and it will make it harder for the people of D.C. to combat gun violence in their community.

I think he got the right words, wrong context. it's harder to combat violence (armed hoodlums) in the community if the law abiding citizens are unarmed. am I right?

[Sponsor]

[Hazcat]

UHHH, yep!  Helmke believes in safe working conditions for criminals.

[Ocin]

UHHH, yep!  Helmke believes in safe working conditions for criminals.

Doesn't US law provide for a safe and healthy working environment for anybody?

We do have such laws in place here in Holland. 

[Hazcat]

Doesn't US law provide for a safe and healthy working environment for anybody?

We do have such laws in place here in Holland. 

OK, Mr. Nether - regions ( ) from the socialst heaven of EWW-RIPE,

We don't cotton ta no durn furriners a tellin us how ta treet our criminals!

[tombogan03884]

Doesn't US law provide for a safe and healthy working environment for anybody?

We do have such laws in place here in Holland. 

Yes, but THINKING people assume that murderers, rapists and robbers are not covered by them.

[Ocin]

Yes, but THINKING people assume that murderers, rapists and robbers are not covered by them.

Ah, now, there's your problem: politicians don't think, they leave that to asses, because asses have larger heads.