A ticking time bomb on the Heller case
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty wants to help balance the District's recession-squeezed budget by allowing as many as 80 percent of the city's inmates to qualify for early release, borrowing a tactic that has stirred controversy elsewhere in the nation.The Heller case struck down the ban on handguns and defensive firearms in DC, and ever since, the political leaders of that city have been struggling to formulate a response. They took several tries at formulating new legislation that was almost-but-not-quite as bad as their original bans, hoping that it would survive court challenge. Congress has responded by continuing to press for legislation removing gun control from the issues that the DC local government can write laws about. So, DC's Mayor Adrian Fenty has thought up a wonderful new plan: long-term political sabotage. If he can't keep honest citizens in his city from having firearms for self-defense, by god he will make sure that in another 10 or 20 years, researchers will notice an increase in crime that very nearly coincides with the embarassing outbreak of civil rights in his jurisdiction. I should probably note that I'm not seriously claiming Fenty is doing this deliberately to increase crime and sabotage gun rights. It's a possibility. Mainly, though, I want this article to be sitting in my archives in those 5 or 10 or 20 years, so that if that uptick in crime does materialize, I'll be able to point back to at least one alternative explanation. [I apologize for the lack of a link; I wrote this up and saved it for later, not realizing I hadn't included a link -- NEW linked]. |
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