What was the reason for the Washington D.C. handgun ban?

Question

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Answer 1

Simple minded politics (sorry, no website!).

Crime was high in Washington DC, the people cried "DO Something!"

The politicians did ... they banned handguns in the area with the idea "No guns, No crime!  ... perfect!"

Problem ...

The people that were committing crimes didn't care a bit about the ban, they brought guns in anyway.  Their intended victims did not bring in guns (criminals by definition break laws ... law abiding citizens do not).

Result:  Washington DC had the highest violent crime rate in the country after the ban.  

Moral of the story:  It is not enough to just do something, you must do something useful!

Answer 2

It was unconstitutional.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_Co...

Edit:  I didn't read the question right.  The ban was lifted because it was unconstitutional.  The reason for the ban was to lower the crime rate.

Answer 3

The city council is run by Democrats. To some multi-millionaire "limousine liberal" politician in his gated community it seems like the logical answer to the problem of too many gun crimes. "If we pass a law banning guns, there won't be any gun crime!".

The reality, of course, is that the only people who surrendered their guns were the law abiding citizens who would never have committed a gun crime anyway. All the new law meant to the criminal was a guarantee that their victims would be unarmed.

The primary result of the ban was that robberies of liquor and convenience stores in Virginia and Maryland went down, while those in DC went up. Why? Because the people who were robbing stores in VA and MD realized it was safer to drive over the bridge into DC and rob a store there, where you knew the store clerk would be unarmed. The clerk in a 'good ol' boy' State like VA was likely to be as well armed as the crooks, so people there tend not to try to rob liquor stores.

We see the same thing in California. Liquor stores in Oakland and San Francisco where it's illegal to have a gun in a liquor store are robbed all the time. Liquor stores in Fresno and Modesto, where virtually every store clerk is armed, rarely get robbed.

I know of a liquor store in a REALLY bad neighborhood in Stockton where the clerks shoot at silhouette targets at the range once a month, and pin their latest targets up to the fence outside the store. Unsurprisingly, they have NEVER been robbed.

Richard

Answer 4

Because they are liberal morons, and believe that guns kill people!

Answer 5

The ban was instituted because crime rates were high.  Of course the ban didn't actually do anything, so crime rates remained high, and in fact it may have made the crime rate worse by disarming law abiding citizens.

The fact that DC did not repeal the ban when it was obvious it wasn't working, is a testament to the sheer stupidity of liberals not realizing their policies were only making things worse.  

Answer 6

so people stop shooting members of the government lol

Answer 7

In my opinion, it was a test to see how far they could go in suppressing our rights to protect ourselves against the government.  So when they became to tyrannical, people wouldn't have guns to defend themselves at all costs against the government from enslaving us.

Answer 8

They had an ineffective Mayor and chief of police and tried to blame the problem on an inanimate object. All they accomplished was disarming honest citizens and left them at the mercy of the criminals.