The District's Broken Gun-Free Zone

I'm sure this was temporary, but the District of Columbia forgot to put out the signs warning that their gun-free zone was broken for most of 2011.

The gun-free zone was way broken, as in pretending to stop the Potomac River with a barbed wire fence kind of broken.  There are laws prohibiting the sale of drugs in D.C., yet the District is known as an easy city in which to get drugs.  It is obviously an easy city in which criminals get all types of guns.  With millions of dollars of evidence in their face, the DC government perpetuates the fantasy that gun prohibition disarms criminals.  They continue to claim that law-abiding D.C. citizens are the source of guns used in criminal activity, and that D.C. citizens are unnecessary violent when they armed for self-defense.  I think city hall has been trying out the evidence if they expect us to believe that nonsense.  Read the news;

Outlaws Have Guns While Honest Citizens are Disarmed

"Among weapons confiscated from criminals were automatic rifles and handguns with silencers. A total of 161 firearms were seized. One suspect had offered to sell undercover agents hand grenades and a rocket launcher."

70 Suspects Arrested in Drugs, Firearms Investigation (with video)

"The operation.. netted about 80 pounds of methamphetamine, 9.6 kilograms of cocaine, 1.25 gallons of PCP, 23.5 pounds of marijuana, heroin, MDMA/ecstasy and 161 firearms, including 29 assault weapons."

D.C. police arrest 70 in yearlong drug, gun sting. Effort helped cl...

"The sting, which ran from November 2010 through November 2011, was aimed at catching high-level drug and gun dealers who were channeling their supplies from as far away as Atlanta.."

So after a year, the DC police reached down and pulled 7 million dollars worth of drugs and guns out of the river that flow though the city.  I don't think they left a hole in that river.  They justified their jobs, and little more.  There is no evidence that DC is now seven million dollars safer and drug free.  By all accounts, they could reach back into the drug trade and pull millions of dollars out for week after week and month after month.  I don't think they even left a ripple in the hundred billion dollar flow of drugs.

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray and Chief of Police Cathy Lanier say you can't be trusted with firearms because citizens lack judgement and training.  I have to question their judgment on that.