Former D.C. Police Chief Shifts Stance on Gun Ban
posted 4:42 pm Mon December 10, 2007 - WASHINGTON
Ramsey says there needs to be reasonable control over guns, but he says handgun registration can provide that control. The former chief, who is set to take over Philadelphia's police department in January, says the nation is not going to ban handguns and he's taking a realistic approach to the issue. He says any weapons ban should cover assault weapons and more dangerous guns.
Ramsey stepped down as the city's police chief after Mayor Adrian Fenty took office this year.Ramsey's comments Monday to WTOP radio are a shift away from his defense of the D.C. gun ban during his time in Washington. In congressional hearings on the gun ban in 2004 and 2005, Ramsey told lawmakers nothing good would come from overturning the law.
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6:39 pm on 12/11/07
All these liberal busybodies can think of doing is to intrude further into our private lives. Instead they should be enabling self sufficiency if they are as much for personal freedom as they claim to be.
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