Reply #118: If so, my apologies. [View All]

[Ready4Change]

But I've not read that in this thread.

I have read that you maintain that the citizens of DC do not want to legalize ownership of firearms. For the most part, elections and public actions in DC, as viewed from my suburban Maryland home, supports what you say.

But my experience makes me think the citizens of DC are misinformed about the outcomes of their position. I've been to sections of 'gun free' DC where my only thought was to get out as soon as possible.

Places where a Subway sandwich shop had inch thick bullet proof glass between the employees and customers, with a rotating airlock that allowed money and food to be passed back and forth.

Places where a good friend of mine was mugged, and nearly mugged often enough that she and her husband moved away and now put up with hour long commutes. (THey used to live in NY before moving here, BTW.)

Places where a panhandler 'recommended' that I use my ATM card to get him the money he wanted. (Public space, so I was able to back away from him and whatever he had in his pocket.)

I strongly resist going into DC anymore. It is NOT free of guns. It is a free place for criminals to use guns, without fear of citizens resisting. A town of prey and wolves.

DC needs to face the fact that it's gun restrictions have failed.

Only this one suburbanites opinion.