Rational thought seems to be a rare commodity when it comes to arguing against Second Amendment rights. D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Attorney General Linda Singer argued that the Second Amendment doesn’t protect the rights of Americans to keep and bear arms in an article in the Washington Post.
National Review Online’s The Corner calls this quote from the article a ‘howler’ and I have to agree.
The handgun ban has saved countless lives, but this fundamental part of the District’s public safety laws will be no more if the Supreme Court does not review and overturn this year’s decision by the D.C. Circuit.
David Freddoso responds to this with:
Countless lives? D.C. is consistently at the top of the U.S. murder rate rankings. Was the gun ban saving “countless lives” in 1991, when the rate peaked at 80 murders per 100,000 people? Would the number have otherwise been even higher? Is it still saving “countless lives” when our murder rate for 2005, at its 20-year low, was still five times that of New York City?
If I’m not mistaken, Fenty and Singer appear to be suggesting that their city is so totally lawless that only a total deprivation of Constitutional rights can make it moderately liveable. I wonder how they feel about wiretapping?
The fact that there are numerous examples of places at which gun control has increased crime and examples of places at which the Second Amendment is upheld has almost no crime doesn’t seem to enter into the argument.
Is a criminal going to break into a house of gun owners or house whose owners brag they don’t own guns?
I just know that I would feel very vulnerable in a place like D.C.
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“No, no, don’t look at that pesky Second Amendment. It is a myth.” Liberalism at its finest.
PS: New colors! Pretty!
It is amazing that every other of the first ten amendments are for the individual but this one is not. It does read “the right of the PEOPLE.”
The lawyers would be better off arguing that the Constitution does not apply in DC because that document gives Congress the right to make the laws there. They might be able to convince a judge that the amendment does not apply in DC because of this part of the Constitution but the idea that it does not apply to individuals is just stupid.
Oh no, I’m an addict! (An article on Bush’ visit, too)…
I do believe this is just the right post to give everyone a chuckle, so I am going to use it for my trackback today. After all, could we all use a chuckle every now and then, right? ;)…