Former DC Chief Opposses Total Ban
Former D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey is shifting his position on Washington’s 31-year ban on handgun ownership as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on the issue.
Ramsey says there needs to be reasonable control over guns, but he says handgun registration can provide that control.
Registration, no thanks. But it is an improvement.
December 11th, 2007 at 10:29 am
I’ve got to search through my archives on blogspot, but I asked him a question about this on a Washington Post chat when some hoods were running around the city with AK-47s robbing banks (turns out, they were smuggled out of Iraq by the Army – not purchased at a gun show) and he reiterated his support for a ban on guns as essential to DC crime control.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Is it wrong that the first time I read the title I read “Former DC Thief Opposses Total Ban”?
December 11th, 2007 at 6:16 pm
And he’s going to be the top cop in MY town! Heaven help us.
December 11th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
“Ramsey says there needs to be reasonable control over guns, but he says handgun registration can provide that control”
“Reasonable” is a very vague term. Reasonable to who? What’s “reasonable” to one group is totally unacceptable to another.
What’s more, only honest citizens would register. The crooks sure as hell wont so how’s that going to affect crime? It wont, it’ll just be one more invasion of our rights.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Funny, I always thought registration was supposed to lead to prohibition, not the other way around.