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Take away guns and then get robbed.(INSIDER REPORT)(gun ownership laws)
On January 2, Marion Barry, the crack-smoking, tax-evading ex-mayor of Washington, D.C., who was a loud voice during his four terms in office advocating strict gun control measures, reaped what he sowed when two youths held him at gunpoint in his apartment and robbed him.
Outside Barry's apartment building, two young men called out to Barry by his nickname and offered to carry his groceries into his apartment for money. After Barry tipped the two, they left. But about 10 minutes later, the two knocked at his door. When he admitted them, they put a gun to his head and demanded his wallet.
Barry, who is calling for even more strict gun control measures in D.C., apparently won't let himself see that D.C. gun laws are worse than rubbish. Those laws halted additional legal handgun ownership in 1976, and they now require that most rifles and handguns be registered and be locked up or disassembled when in the home, rendering them useless for self-defense. The laws are dangerous to law-abiding citizens. The Washington Post reported that police are "battling a recent spike in ...
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- Magazine article from: New York Times Upfront SUDO, PHIL April 10, 2000 700+ words
...whether to enact tougher gun-control laws. Despite enormous pressure...In the end, opponents of gun control say what is needed is not...taking rights away from law-abiding citizens." But gun-control advocates say the need for...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Schiereck, Nicole August 10, 1999 700+ words
...t be led astray by gun control advocates. It is essential...level-headed about gun control. By imposing stricter...society. Let the law-abiding citizens of this country protect themselves. Gun control should not spawn out...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 3, 2003 700+ words
...to acknowledge that gun control doesn't work...hard to study whether gun control laws work in this country...saying all along. Gun control laws have no impact on criminals, only law-abiding citizens who don't commit...
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- News wire article from: Kansas City Star May 12, 2003 700+ words
...traditional arguments about gun control. Federal firearms...in which most law-abiding citizens can carry concealed...permit. "We have no gun control in Vermont," said...I don't think gun control is a national issue...
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...Arguing that more stringent gun control or handgun bans would only deny firearms to law-abiding citizens, he said that criminals would...to "constitutionalizing" the gun control debate by leaving it for the Supreme...
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...the world-wide gun control movement has suffered...campaign to disarm law-abiding citizens. Late last week...legislation to derail the gun control movement's attempts...allowed to own firearms. Gun control leaders in the United...
- Brady Gun Control Campaign All Wet, Say Nation's Top Cops.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 2, 2006 700+ words
...that criminals ignore gun control laws; and that concealed...a stark contrast to gun control movement propaganda...would be safer if law-abiding citizens were disarmed. Specifically...that criminals ignore gun control laws and; 63 percent...
- Gun Control & Reality.
- Magazine article from: Guns Magazine FARRELL, SCOTT April 1, 2000 700+ words
...of 1999. The reason: Two new gun control laws -- a strict assault weapon...went into effect, or to law-abiding citizens concerned over ever-increasing...no arguing that California new gun control laws are responsible for putting...
- More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws.
- Magazine article from: National Review McGinnis, John O. July 20, 1998 700+ words
...225 pp., $23) Gun control remains as much a mainstay...the poor to work. Gun control does not decrease gun...supply of armed law-abiding citizens who might resist them...increase in poverty and gun control is likely to lead to...
- OPINION: Killings renew gun control issue.
- Newspaper article from: Times Union (Albany, NY) April 22, 2007 700+ words
...Rosenfeld Apr. 22--Gun control joins Social Security...homes. Proponents of gun control draw the logical conclusion...going to be hindered by gun control rules. They would...are observed by law-abiding citizens. But 23-year-old...
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