DC Mayor responds to Supreme Court ruling on gun ban

Washington, D.C. murder capital of America! Crime capital of America! Well, up to a few years back Washington was the murder capital of America, but is still in the top ten. Lot of good gun control has accomplished.

Looks to me the murder rate in Washington has slightly declined because there are less people to kill with so many already dead and those who are still alive fearful to leave their homes. I understand citizens of Washington, at night, simply place their valuables, their televisions, their stereos, their jewelry, their cash, out on their front porches so criminals will not come into their homes then kill them.

Research after research, statistics after statistics, all exemplify when gun control is effected in a region, violent crime skyrockets.

Regions with the lowest crime rates are those with no or few gun control laws. Those regions with the absolute lowest crime rates are those regions which allow law abiding citizens to carry guns on their person.

England makes an excellent case study of this idiocy of gun control. England has the strictest of gun control and has the highest rate of violent crimes involving guns, specifically home invasion robberies. Reason for this is criminals know almost no home owners own guns.

Another interesting case study is Virginia has a low crime rate on a relative basis. Washington has one of the highest crime rates because criminals leave the District of Columbia to obtain guns, such as in surrounding Virginia, then return to Washington commit violent crimes against law abiding citizens who are defenseless because of having no guns to use to protect themselves.

Commission of any crime with the use of a gun should carry capital punishment. Use a gun to commit crime, you will be executed and this execution should be mandated within one year, not ten years or twenty years later. Use of a gun to commit crime is to display murderous intent. Execution is a fitting punishment.

Should capital punishment be the sentence for gun related crime, our prisons would be empty and most prisons would be rendered tourist attractions like Alcatraz Island. More beneficial, executing those who use guns to commit crimes would drop our violent crime rate very dramatically, very much so.

Oh no! Gits like Fenty would rather go after law abiding citizens who own guns because of fear of being killed by criminals; lots easier for cops to go after law abiding citizens because they do not shoot cops.

Gun control only leads to skyrocketing violent crime rates. Swift execution of criminals who use guns is the only viable solution to violent crime.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation

When will the liberals ever stop?...NEVER. The mayor of DC claims they can still ban semi-automatics. This is an outright lie. All he wishes to do is to force American citizens to fight tooth and nail all the way to the Supreme Court. He has the power of the district and knows fully well the citizens don't. The opinion of the court is that protected weapons are "...those in common use at the time." There is no more common handgun or rifle than the semi-automatic. I believe he is taking out of context the statement that unprotected weapons are those that are "dangerous AND unusual". First of all, all weapons are dangerous. And second, there is nothing unusual about a semi-automatic. I fear that I will never understand the mind-set of the liberal. My take on the US Supreme Court...with an issue as important as the Second Amendment, I would have hoped that common sense would prevail. One would assume that this decision would have been made without party consideration. But sadly, that was not the case. One more liberal and the American people would have been screwed. Why do we have a Supreme Court if it is totally political with no consideration for truth and justice? Mark Davis/pres. Committee for Responsible Government

Actually, the interesting thing in the decision that it seems lots of people are misquoting is simply that it said "self defense, as in one's home". It did not say "self defense in one's home". That's only *ONE* situation it clearly enumerates, but the syntax clearly makes the point that it's self defense IN GENERAL; not in a specific place. So it seems to me that Washington is going to have little choice but to allow people to openly carry firearms; at least on their person or within their vehicles... ...perhaps all those old 'coatrooms' at government building entrances will have to be renovated and equipped with hooks or shelves so "the people" can check in their guns as they enter? At least until the DC police can absolutely GUARANTEE one's complete safety within city limits?

Fenty, one of the D.C.'s Three Stooges, needs to be held in 'contempt of court' for his continued hard-headed anti-American activity of infringing on the Civil Rights of all Americans by his ignorant stand that only firearms within the home will be legal. The depth of arrogance and stupidly presented by this moron truly amazes me. For someone sworn to uphold the Constitution to act in such a horrible manner draws suspicion that he may be receiving huge compensation from some organization with the intension to overthrow this free country.

Mark Davis fires a round, "...they can still ban semi-automatics."

As often said, "You'll have to pry my gun from my cold dead fingers."

My husband, a twice purple heart Vietnam combat vet, maintains a small arsenal for our family of three. I have a Beretta 9mm, our daughter the same as well as her father. We also maintain a Colt AR-15 with numerous 40 round clips which, as you know, is semiautomatic and easily converted to full auto. However, my husband explains full auto is not only unlawful but dangerous as well; you use up your ammo in seconds then are shot while you are reloading. While fighting in Vietnam he never allowed his boys to use full auto except for the most dire of circumstances such as being swamped by the enemy; "shoot to kill not to scare."

We have quite a few collector guns which came down through our family. A Winchester 30-30 saddle rifle, a century old from my grandfather, a bolt action single shot 4-10 shotgun, also a century old, from an uncle and a Smith & Wesson 38 special circa World War II from my husband's father. These are guns too old to be safely fired but in an emergency, could be fired.

Our girl's father has a rule. Twice a year we must prove our ability to disassemble and assemble our weapons, prove our knowledge of gun safety and shoot a minimum 98% torso shots at 10 yards with our handguns. We take our gun safety responsibilities very seriously; guns are dangerous as America learned from Dick Cheney.

I always impress my husband with 98% head shots at 10 yards. Sometimes he becomes angry, tells me I should not be showing off rather shooting to kill with certainty; a torso is larger and easier to hit target. Then I remind him I shoot with greater accuracy and at a greater distance with my bow and arrow; he could not hit the broadside of my butt with a bow and arrow at 5 yards.

Only twice in twenty years have I needed to display my handgun to prevent crime, our daughter never has and my husband chooses to not carry a handgun having a preference, a macho perference, for disarming a bad guy then shooting the bad guy with his own gun.

Our house rule is if a stranger comes to our door, we are to answer with gun in hand but concealed to not frighten. This seems a prudent behavior in today's world.

Angers me to know Obama, Fenty and so many others would attempt to disarm law abiding citizens and leave us at the mercy of gun carrying criminals. Their logic is so stupid. People like them truly believe banishing guns will have criminals turning in their guns. This will never happen just as we will never turn in our guns; we will not allow our government to leave us defenseless against criminals.

Why is Obama, Fenty and other sissified geeks like them not calling for a mandatory life sentence in prison for criminals who use a gun to commit a crime? Use of a gun during commission of a crime is a display of intent to commit murder. This murderous intent demands a lifetime lockup.

I would have gun carrying criminals executed but there is no chance bleeding heart liberals would enact this type of true justice. I would settle for a mandatory life sentence to prison for gun wielding criminals.

Why are Obama, Fenty and others going after law abiding citizens rather than going after gun carrying criminals? Because they are sissified, because they are fearful of true justice.

Purl Gurl
Choctaw Nation

Now Purl, What Man married you? And why do THINK you know so much about African Americans. You're no friend of ours. So I really do not get your point. But alot of BLAH, BLAH, BLAH

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