D.C. chief wants appointment to search your home for guns

Washington, D.C. isn’t the only city in the U.S. that ignores the Constitution’s second amendment and bans private gun ownership, or at least severely restricts it. As far as I know, though, at this time, the District of Columbia is the only metropolis booking “voluntary” appointments to search homes for illegal weapons.

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier says she’s changing a plan for searches of private homes for illegal guns.

The chief now says searches would be done by appointment unless there is an urgent need. Police and city lawyers are still trying to work out what can and can’t be done during these searches.

Since the program was announced weeks ago, it has been delayed in part because of fears citizens’ rights will be violated.

Lanier now says police will distribute literature to homes in high-crime neighborhoods asking owners to sign forms and set up appointments.

I’m left nearly speechless. If I lived in one of these neighborhoods, I would be planning on moving. Of course, you probably couldn’t pay me enough to live in the world’s center of graft and the highest crime city in the country. Now that government has screwed up the country’s moral and educational foundations, it wants to fix the problem by treating us all like irresponsible idiots. Admittedly, many of Washington D.C.’s residents probably shouldn’t have handguns. We should be asking ourselves why this is. Why does the city have to worry about whether or not its population can be trusted with weapons in the first place? Address the root causes that make gun ownership undesirable - a lack of individual responsibility, an amoral approach to life and a culture that breeds indifference and apathy.

Fix those things and the problem with guns will correct itself. Until we can honestly discuss the real problems in D.C., gun crime will continue to be an issue. Search those houses every week. Gun crime won’t change a bit.