If it Sounds Too Good to Be True, It Probably Is
My dad is a Baptist pastor. When Jehovah’s Witnesses would come to our door, he would great them eagerly. Invariably one of them would introduce themselves, state that he was a student of the Bible and ask if they could come in and talk for a bit. Dad would get excited and proclaim, “Praise the Lord! I’ve been waiting for you all day.” JW: “What do you mean?” or “You have, why?” Dad: “I read this morning to beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing and you’ve finally gotten here!”
Former Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He is playing a typical Democrat shell game straight from their fascist playbook. In what seems innocent and a good idea on the surface, he is laying the groundwork to confiscate legal firearms from law-abiding citizens. Here is the excerpt from the Washington Times:
D.C. Council member Marion Barry yesterday introduced legislation that would suspend the District's 30-year ban on handguns, providing gun owners a 90-day period to register weapons they would then be allowed to legally own. "We are in the midst of a gun-violence epidemic," said Mr. Barry, Ward 8 Democrat. "We need to see gun violence as an emergency in the District of Columbia." Mr. Barry's bill, which only applies to pistols, would allow D.C. residents with no criminal record to register guns for 90 days from the law's enactment. After the 90-day period, current gun restrictions would be reinstated.
While this sounds like a plan for amnesty of otherwise law abiding gun owners, Councilman Berry’s intentions are demonstrated further down in the article.
Mr. Barry, who served four terms as D.C. mayor, also referenced the recent shooting deaths of D.C. teenagers Cynthia Gray and Taleshia Ford, both 17, in urging support for the measure. "We all get outraged ... and we all go home," Mr. Barry said. "Nothing is done to get the guns off the streets of Washington, D.C."
But Washington D.C. is doing quite a bit to get guns off of the streets.
The District has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation and restricts ownership of most guns that were not registered before 1977. Privately owned rifles and shotguns must be kept at home and stored unloaded, disassembled or bound by a trigger lock or a similar device. Mr. Barry's proposal would increase the penalties for possessing an unregistered weapon in the District from a maximum of one year in prison and a $1,000 fine to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. A second offense could result in 30 years in prison and a $20,000 fine, according to the bill. Mr. Barry, who was robbed at gunpoint in his Southeast apartment in January 2006, cited statistics that said police had confiscated 2,656 guns last year, with 51 percent of those weapons being seized east of the Anacostia River. A recent Metropolitan Police Department report on homicides from 2001 to 2005 states that 901 of 1,126 homicide victims, or about 80 percent, were fatally shot.
Obviously the egregious assault on the second amendment in the district has done absolutely nothing to curb the impulses of the violent debased in Washington D.C. Criminals know that the odds are in their favor that their victims will be unarmed. The reason that so many of the murders in D.C. are by gun is that honest citizens are abiding by the law and cannot defend themselves.
Kennesaw, GA passed a law in 1982 requiring gun ownership of its residents with some exemptions. Burglaries dropped 90%. Read that again…90%. Twenty years later, there was not one murder in Kennesaw. None. No fatal accidents, no outraged redneck neighbors having shootouts in the streets of their mobile home parks. No country clubbers shooting the poor for fun. Nothing of the sort. That has been the pattern for the entire period of the law.
Convicted felon and druggie Marion Barry wants guns off of the streets and out of homes. Once the guns are registered he will know exactly which homes to disarm so that the criminals can operate with further impunity. Washington D.C. needs to take a lesson from Kennesaw, GA. Arm your citizens legally and your crime will drop. Maybe Mr. Barry is more interested in helping his criminal buddies than the honest citizens he pretends to serve.
Former Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He is playing a typical Democrat shell game straight from their fascist playbook. In what seems innocent and a good idea on the surface, he is laying the groundwork to confiscate legal firearms from law-abiding citizens. Here is the excerpt from the Washington Times:
D.C. Council member Marion Barry yesterday introduced legislation that would suspend the District's 30-year ban on handguns, providing gun owners a 90-day period to register weapons they would then be allowed to legally own. "We are in the midst of a gun-violence epidemic," said Mr. Barry, Ward 8 Democrat. "We need to see gun violence as an emergency in the District of Columbia." Mr. Barry's bill, which only applies to pistols, would allow D.C. residents with no criminal record to register guns for 90 days from the law's enactment. After the 90-day period, current gun restrictions would be reinstated.
While this sounds like a plan for amnesty of otherwise law abiding gun owners, Councilman Berry’s intentions are demonstrated further down in the article.
Mr. Barry, who served four terms as D.C. mayor, also referenced the recent shooting deaths of D.C. teenagers Cynthia Gray and Taleshia Ford, both 17, in urging support for the measure. "We all get outraged ... and we all go home," Mr. Barry said. "Nothing is done to get the guns off the streets of Washington, D.C."
But Washington D.C. is doing quite a bit to get guns off of the streets.
The District has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation and restricts ownership of most guns that were not registered before 1977. Privately owned rifles and shotguns must be kept at home and stored unloaded, disassembled or bound by a trigger lock or a similar device. Mr. Barry's proposal would increase the penalties for possessing an unregistered weapon in the District from a maximum of one year in prison and a $1,000 fine to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. A second offense could result in 30 years in prison and a $20,000 fine, according to the bill. Mr. Barry, who was robbed at gunpoint in his Southeast apartment in January 2006, cited statistics that said police had confiscated 2,656 guns last year, with 51 percent of those weapons being seized east of the Anacostia River. A recent Metropolitan Police Department report on homicides from 2001 to 2005 states that 901 of 1,126 homicide victims, or about 80 percent, were fatally shot.
Obviously the egregious assault on the second amendment in the district has done absolutely nothing to curb the impulses of the violent debased in Washington D.C. Criminals know that the odds are in their favor that their victims will be unarmed. The reason that so many of the murders in D.C. are by gun is that honest citizens are abiding by the law and cannot defend themselves.
Kennesaw, GA passed a law in 1982 requiring gun ownership of its residents with some exemptions. Burglaries dropped 90%. Read that again…90%. Twenty years later, there was not one murder in Kennesaw. None. No fatal accidents, no outraged redneck neighbors having shootouts in the streets of their mobile home parks. No country clubbers shooting the poor for fun. Nothing of the sort. That has been the pattern for the entire period of the law.
Convicted felon and druggie Marion Barry wants guns off of the streets and out of homes. Once the guns are registered he will know exactly which homes to disarm so that the criminals can operate with further impunity. Washington D.C. needs to take a lesson from Kennesaw, GA. Arm your citizens legally and your crime will drop. Maybe Mr. Barry is more interested in helping his criminal buddies than the honest citizens he pretends to serve.
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