Ex DC mayor proposes bill to repeal DC gun laws for 90 days

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On NBC 4 - nothing on their Web site yet. Marion Barry (even if you're not from the area you must have heard of him) is sponsoring a bill to repeal the DC gun bans for 90 days. Not much support from his cohorts, except that it would allow them to get a better idea of who has guns when they register them. I'm sure Barry's crack dealer will be one of the first to register.

I wish he was mayor again. Ineffective as the rest of them, but he provided plenty of entertainment.
 
Has Eleanor Holmes Norton signed on yet?

:neener:

Anyway despite Hizzoner's reputation for stupidity this is a good proposal provided guns obtained during the 90 days could be registered and kept afterwards
 
I'm curious what that would accomplish, unless they're pushing for a 90 day amnesty.
 
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I'm curious what that would accomplish
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Me too. Is this going to be a trick so they can say, "See, crime rates didn't go down when we allowed guns [for 90 days], so we're banning them again."? Or a trick to find out who has guns (by registering them)? Or a trick to get people to buy guns only to have them banned again, so they can then arrest all the gun owners for being "criminals"? Marion Barry has smoked a lot of things in his life, and he's probably up to more of the same.

What happens on day 91??
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Great question. Any step toward allowing more pro-RKBA sentiment in our nation's capital is fine with me, but this seems pointless. Why 90 days? What can you possibly accomplish in 3 months? I'm not sure what they're hoping to prove. Maybe it was a deal with his crack dealer that got Barry to do it.
 
Damn straight it's a trap. Won't happen anyway but I suspect if it did a lot of people who were trying to do the "right thing" (with no idea of what the right thing is) would sign on and get stung. :cuss:
 
The same Marion Barry who hasn't paid his taxes for over five years, plea bargained to stay out of jail for it, made arrangements to pay them, and still hasn't?

Yeah, I really want him on our side.
 
My cousin's anti, ultra lib, elitist, yuppie scum husband tells me that Marion is a city councilman now? Is that true? They should have their voting rights revoked. Well, he should anyway. :evil:
 
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Mr. Barry's bill, which only applies to pistols, would allow D.C. residents with no criminal record to register guns for 90 days from the law's enactment. After the 90-day period, current gun restrictions would be reinstated.
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Barry spokesman Keith Perry said the bill is "an acknowledgment that people do have guns" in the District and would help police better track weapons used in the commission of crimes.
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Mr. Barry's proposal would increase the penalties for possessing an unregistered weapon in the District from a maximum of one year in prison and a $1,000 fine to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
A second offense could result in 30 years in prison and a $20,000 fine, according to the bill.
Mr. Barry, who was robbed at gunpoint in his Southeast apartment in January 2006, cited statistics that said police had confiscated 2,656 guns last year, with 51 percent of those weapons being seized east of the Anacostia River.
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Mr. Barry's bill was co-sponsored by council members Jim Graham, Ward 1 Democrat; Kwame Brown, at-large Democrat; and Tommy Wells, Ward 6 Democrat. It was referred to the Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary.
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At the risk of sounding dumb, unrealistic or who knows what, the fact of Barry in ANY elective office never ceases to amaze me.

Of course, I do not live in Washington, D.C., nor am I ever likely to so reside. Then there is the historical record of the Mayors of Boston.
 
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Let me see if I understand this.

The bill will require a handgun owner to register his temporarily legal handgun, then increases the penalty for owning that now registered gun on the 91st day?:scrutiny:

This could start a trend. Give a 90 day amnesty for all previous murders as long as you confessed to them. If you confess, you get a free toaster. Then after 91 days we execute all confessed killers. That's sure to work too.:p
 
then increases the penalty for owning that now registered gun on the 91st day?
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No.

--edited to add: That's not how the bill is explained, but... ;)

Rick
 
Marion Barry is *America's Mayor*

Not Rudy "I'll have my thugs shove a nightstick in your behind" Giuliani... :p

In all seriousness though, there was a clip of him speaking and race baiting criminal though he may be, to his credit he did say:

'I oppose handguns and wouldn't own one myself, but I have constituents that have requested this and we're just presenting this on their behalf'.

Too bad Mike Bloomberg won't man up like this.
 
Well at least some council members in DC are also backing it.

I think it would make Parker moot.
 
OK, the quotes in the thread left me a little confused because they did not spell out that newly registered guns would also be legal. But I finally read the article and now see the explanation. I am left with another question though. From the article:

Perry said the bill is "an acknowledgment that people do have guns" in the District and would help police better track weapons used in the commission of crimes.
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How will it accomplish this?
 
wool over the lambs eyes

I agree; it's a trap. A political ploy.

The first ninety days or so, the criminal element and the armed citizen will shoot it out to determine who is running the streets. It will be a dynamic exchange that, given a longer period of time than the ninety days, would favor the citizen. After many criminals getting their corrections applied upon the streets. Eventually law and order would return, and the armed citizen would prevail. Given enough time.

However, the unbiased NEWS media could be relied upon to banner headline all the gun violence during this so called trial period. So that...

And at the end of the "trial" period, the government would officially conclude that it is just to wild and dangerous to have such a state of affairs, and the new forthcoming confiscations and repressions would be even more severe than the preceding ones!

And now the "record" will "show" that being armed, "scientifically" does (not) show a reduction in the crime rate. So now...

Can a tiger, or rather, a skunk change their stripes?
 
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