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D.C. Lauds Supreme Court Decision to Hear Gun Ban Case
   posted 4:39 pm Tue November 20, 2007 - Washington
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Diplomat
The only reason to exclude an entire population from a Constitutional right would be that the population in question is too mentally incompetent to exercise that right in a responsible fashion.

Apparently, the PTB decided that DC residents are too dumb and/or nuts to handle a handgun.


fnball
If the Supreme Court rules against DC's gun ban I think Mr. Durham may be surprised to discover that the murder rate (and crime in general) in DC will decrease. If I were a criminal I would definitely prefer unarmed, defenseless victims.


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