Voting rights for District of Columbia residents has become a gun rights issue thanks to the NRA. Senate leaders did leave the opportunity open for them. I suppose it’s not that unbelievable that politicians and lobbyists would play politics with the rights of DC’s nearly 600,000 residents.
NPR, did some nice reporting on this issue yesterday.
Also, check out the City Paper on gun seizures by the DC Police Department.
It is always convenient to assign blame to inanimate objects for crime and death. This country is saturated with political correctness — the only out-of-bounds discussion is the mention of degradation of values and virtues of the general population – this is really the root of our crime problem – Not guns. Much like the war on drugs will continue to be an indefinite war for government expansion, so goes the “war on guns” – Along those lines I propose that DC police need to implement a special task force to track down these guns – also essential government funded education on gun awareness, the implementation of a 800 (or 900 even better) phone hotline 24/7 – this necessitates a tax increase for funding, but it is worth it – to track down these evil evil guns.