Monday, November 19, 2007

D.C. - 30-year gun ban a failure - Gun violence still plagues the city reaching staggering levels


WASHINGTON DC - Three decades ago, at the dawn of municipal self-government in the District of Columbia, the city's first elected mayor and council enacted one of the country's toughest gun-control measures, a ban on handgun ownership that opponents have long said violates the Second Amendment.
All these years later, with the constitutionality of the ban now probably headed for a US Supreme Court review, a much-debated practical question remains unsettled: Has a law aimed at reducing the number of handguns in the District made city streets safer? Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - The Wine Messenger