Redo the Math, Mr. Mayor

Summary


As one reads down the list of remaining gun laws in the District of Columbia, one starts to become aware of the magnitude of the control measures the ruling Democrats have fostered on the people of the District, and I am sure elsewhere as well ("Gun laws carry on despite reversal," Page 1, Friday).

Mayor Adrian Fenty credits these gun laws with decreasing gun violence in the District. Where does he get his statistics? The article points out that the FBI shows 32.8 homicides per 100,000 residents in 1975 before the gun ban and 35.4 homicides in 2005. Where is the decrease?

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Redo the Math, Mr. Mayor

Council member Phil Mendelson is quoted...

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