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Monday, March 24, 2008

Then They Come for Your Guns

Hat tip Rabid Sanity. Things must have gone too well for the respondents in the D.C. v. Heller oral arguments last week, because now the DC police are doing a pre-emptive dragnet for forbidden weapons.

Officers will go door to door asking residents for permission to search their homes.

Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said the "safe homes initiative" is aimed at residents who want to cooperate with police. She gave the example of parents or grandparents who know or suspect their children have guns in the home.

If weapons are recovered, they will be tested and destroyed if they are not found to be linked to any other crimes.

This reminds me of when the authorities in California dumped boat loads of confiscated and surrendered guns into the ocean...30 years ago. How'd that turn out?

7 comments:

Mike LaRoche said...

This reminds me of when the authorities in California dumped boat loads of confiscated and surrendered guns into the ocean...

I'd rather have had the "authorities" dumped into the ocean.

kingston mag said...

This is just another example of liberal racism. Washington DC is a predominately a black matriarchy. In DC “parents” means “mothers” (females over 15) and “grandparents” means “grandmothers” (females over 30).

Cathy would never try such a thing in a white city with men in charge of households.

SKirkchoff said...

"Then they came for your guns"

Are you referencing the post Nazi "first they came for the jews" piece? And comparing it to GUN OWNERSHIP?

Anonymous said...

why don't you host a rally about it, steve?

carol said...

"And comparing it to GUN OWNERSHIP?"

Nope, but come to think of it, one did precede the other.

Anonymous said...

Then they come for your computers...

Jim Lang said...

After listening to the oral arguments on c-span, I think the DC ban will be struck down, but it's possible that the court will manage to sidestep the issue of whether the 2nd Amendment is about an individual right to bear arms. Walter Dellinger, arguing for the district, was not impressive.