> D. Spencer Hines
>
> The New York Times
>
> There already is a national glut of firearms: estimates run between
> 193 million and 250 million guns. The harm they do is constantly on
> heartbreaking display.
Associated Press (8-25-03)
"WA****NGTON -- Violent and property crimes dipped in 2002 to
their lowest levels since records started being compiled 30 years ago,
and have dropped more than 50 percent in the last decade, the Justice
Department re****ted Sunday."
> Thirty-three dead last year in the shootings at Virginia Tech. Six
killed
> this year at Northern Illinois University.
Both of which were and still are "Gun Free Zones", with the result
that the law abiding victims were rendered defenseless by a government
that cannot (and according to the courts, has no duty to) defend them;
"Law enforcement agencies and personnel have no duty to protect
individuals from the criminal acts of others; instead their duty is to
preserve the peace and arrest law breakers for the protection of
the general public." -- Lynch v. NC Dept. Justice --
> On Wednesday, as the court was getting ready to release its decision, a
> worker in a Kentucky plastics plant shot his supervisor, four co-workers
> and himself to death.
A company which no doubt (like virtually every other company in
the U.S.) has a "no guns on company property" policy, which like
the "Gun Free Zone" law at VT, left the workers defenseless.
> Cities and states have tried to stanch the killing with gun-control
laws.
Which predictably has had absolutely no effect on crime, as guns
don't kill, people do.
> The District of Columbia, which has one of the nation's highest crime
> rates, banned the possession of nearly all handguns and required that
> other
> firearms be stored unloaded and disassembled, or bound with a trigger
> lock.
A law which was implemented in _1977_. You're not helping your
case there....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Wa****ngton,_D.C.#Gun-restriction_laws
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