However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. ... For example in Washington, D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including guns. ... For example in 1988 on February 26 rookie New York City police officer Edward Byre was sitting alone in his police car guarding the house of a drug trial witness in South Jamaica, Queens where he was shot four times in the head and killed. ... People against gun control feel that it is a violation of the Constitution to control the sale and distribution and the registration of guns and gu...

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Many of our founding fathers (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Webster) and others spoke constantly about the importance of our citizenship, maintaining the right to liberty and to bear arms. ... Thank goodness Representative Bono-Mack is not the only level headed Representative in Washington. ... Cities like Washington D.C. offer compelling evidence that gun laws don't save lives. ... The very city these politicians live in Washington D.C., did have a ban on handguns for over 33 years and during that period the city was known as the nation's murder capital. Many people, inc...

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