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echo6tango
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Posted: Sat Apr 11th, 2009 05:54 am |
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What? Could come? Does she watch the freaking news for her own city?? What color is the sky on her planet??
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Norton-Mass-Shootings-Could-Come-to-DC.html
Norton: Mass Shootings Could Come to DC
Voting rights bill runs into trouble
By JIM IOVINO
Updated 9:30 AM EDT, Mon, Apr 6, 2009
Two mass shootings last week could be a harbinger of things to come in the District if a proposed gun amendment is allowed by Congress, according to Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Norton said the deaths of three police officers in Pittsburgh and the 13 people shot to death in Binghamton, N.Y., emphasize the importance of removing a gun amendment tacked onto the D.C. House Voting Rights Act.
"In only the 25 days between March 10 and April 5, 53 people have been killed in mass murders by gunmen," Norton said in a release. "Yet, members of the House and Senate have not looked at the gun amendment, but have regarded it as just another routine attachment to a local D.C. bill. The bill would eliminate all local gun laws, making the city, including official Washington, more open to gun violence than any of the jurisdictions where the mass killings have occurred in March and April."
Norton has been fighting both internal and external pressure to go forward with the bill despite the addition of the gun amendment.
Fenty told the Washington Post it would be a "tough call" to accept an amendment, but he hopes the city "won't have to make that choice."
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KBCraig
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Posted: Sun Apr 12th, 2009 05:23 am |
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And how many people have been shot to death in DC despite the total ban on handguns?
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GoldCoaster
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Posted: Sun Apr 12th, 2009 11:22 pm |
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KBCraig wrote: And how many people have been shot to death in DC despite the total ban on handguns?
This is another one of those "Ignore the man behind the curtain" things. Truth be told if folks could protect themselves there'd probably be a few less killings, or the killings would be of the nefarious types that are already carrying guns in DC regardless of the law - you know the types, the ones that relieve you of your possessions as a service to the community.
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Sonora Rebel
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Posted: Thu Apr 16th, 2009 09:27 pm |
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| Uh... could come? They really do have a skewed view of reality in the District.
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NightOwl
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Posted: Sat Apr 18th, 2009 09:03 pm |
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| No, nobody gets shot there. There's a law, remember?
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rpyne
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Posted: Tue Apr 21st, 2009 07:23 pm |
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KBCraig wrote: And how many people have been shot to death in DC despite the total ban on handguns?
Here, let me correct that for you: "And how many people have been shot to death in DC because of the total ban on handguns?"
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