I was reading through some of the expected implications of the overturn of DC's gun ban and how it will likely see a Supreme Court ruling (first since oft cited precedence of U.S. vs Miller 1939).
DC's attorny made a very ironic statement rebuking the DC Circuit Court's decision to the effect of "We will not stand by while our citizens die!" This was lambasted because DC has a history of suscessfully defend itself against suits by its citizens where law enforcement failed to protect them. If you're incidentally protected in the course of enforcing the law then that's a beneficial side effect of a police officer doing his duty. There is long and established court rulings to this effect so her statements were of poor taste.
All of this provoked the thought: If government officials are certain laws are effective in fighting crime, why don't they simply pass some laws making it illegal to break into people's homes or make it illegal to murder folks? If laws controlling criminal behaviour are truly effective then once they pass those laws we should see a sudden plummit in crime rates all over the country.
Obviously I'm being sarcastic but the correlation between any law an its effect on crimal activity should provide decades and decades of research material for either side attemtping to prove the expected effectiveness of gun control law on criminals.
Does anyone publish research on other control law - gun related or not? What are your thoughts on this simple logic?
DC's attorny made a very ironic statement rebuking the DC Circuit Court's decision to the effect of "We will not stand by while our citizens die!" This was lambasted because DC has a history of suscessfully defend itself against suits by its citizens where law enforcement failed to protect them. If you're incidentally protected in the course of enforcing the law then that's a beneficial side effect of a police officer doing his duty. There is long and established court rulings to this effect so her statements were of poor taste.
All of this provoked the thought: If government officials are certain laws are effective in fighting crime, why don't they simply pass some laws making it illegal to break into people's homes or make it illegal to murder folks? If laws controlling criminal behaviour are truly effective then once they pass those laws we should see a sudden plummit in crime rates all over the country.
Obviously I'm being sarcastic but the correlation between any law an its effect on crimal activity should provide decades and decades of research material for either side attemtping to prove the expected effectiveness of gun control law on criminals.
Does anyone publish research on other control law - gun related or not? What are your thoughts on this simple logic?