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[ocelot]

I'm rather surprised that none of the usual suspects have mentioned the San Francisco Handgun Ban that recently passed yet.

Get on it.

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The History of the Future

[deyo.livejournal.com]

San Francisco will attempt to enforce this law. A resident will file suit in the ninth circuit court of appeals. The circuit court will uphold the ban. The resident will appeal to the Supreme Court, where the circuit court's decision will be overturned. The ninth circuit basically keeps the Supreme Court in business these days, issuing decisions that need overturning.

A lot of important political change has found its roots in San Francisco, but that's partly because the voters there make a huge number of bizarre decisions. A few years ago, the people of San Francisco outlawed the war in Iraq.

[silkensteel.livejournal.com]

There was a similar law in the city of Philadelphia, and it was shot down because of charges that it was racially motivated.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

What's to say, really? Even SFPD opposed it, and there's already a lawsuit against it. Even in SF, I don't expect it to stand. And if it does for a while, I expect the results to be the same as in DC: I expect violent crime to soar.

And then, perhaps people will look at it and say, "Hmmmm, this didn't work so good in DC, and it didn't work so good in SF ..... maybe this isn't such a good idea."