{"id":25857,"date":"2014-10-09T16:51:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T20:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=25857"},"modified":"2014-10-09T16:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T02:54:20","slug":"d-c-councilman-oughta-get-rid-guns-police-shouldnt-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/d-c-councilman-oughta-get-rid-guns-police-shouldnt-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Councilman: &#8216;We oughta get rid of guns\u2026 police shouldn&#8217;t have guns&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25858\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/david-grosso-620x412.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"d-c-councilman-oughta-get-rid-guns-police-shouldnt-guns\" title=\"D.C. Councilman: 'We oughta get rid of guns\u2026 police shouldn't have guns'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25858\" title=\"D.C. Councilman: 'We oughta get rid of guns\u2026 police shouldn't have guns'\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/david-grosso-620x412-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"D.C. Council Member David Grosso. (Photo: Flickr)  H\/T The Blaze. \" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/david-grosso-620x412-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/david-grosso-620x412-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/david-grosso-620x412.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D.C. Council Member David Grosso. (Photo: Flickr, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2014\/10\/09\/d-c-council-member-my-staff-wont-let-me-tell-you-police-shouldnt-have-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"d-c-councilman-oughta-get-rid-guns-police-shouldnt-guns\" title=\"D.C. Councilman: 'We oughta get rid of guns\u2026 police shouldn't have guns'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H\/T The Blaze<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During a D.C. Council hearing Tuesday on the use of controversial stop-and-frisk tactics in the District, a councilman made quite a statement\u00a0regarding his views on firearms and law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, he believes law-abiding citizens and police officers should all be unarmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy staff won\u2019t let me tell you that I think we oughta get rid of guns in the city and that police shouldn\u2019t have guns so I\u2019m not gonna tell you that,\u201d said Councilman David Grosso, according to a<a href=\"https:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2014\/10\/08\/d-c-councilmember-police-shouldnt-have-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"d-c-councilman-oughta-get-rid-guns-police-shouldnt-guns\" title=\"D.C. Councilman: 'We oughta get rid of guns\u2026 police shouldn't have guns'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> local CBS affiliate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While some within the crowd at the Howard University School of Business were taken aback by that\u00a0suggestion, another councilman noted that it was not all that uncommon overseas for police to patrol the beat without a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn other countries not every police enforcement officer is armed with a weapon that\u2019s going to kill somebody,\u201d said councilman Tommy Wells, adding that &#8220;It&#8217;s one thing to escalate with a billy club versus escalating with a pistol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It goes without saying but outright banning all firearms in the District is an absurd idea, not only because it contravenes the Second Amendment rights of D.C. denizens, but also because under the handgun ban that the District had in place up until 2008, when the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional in the landmark<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"d-c-councilman-oughta-get-rid-guns-police-shouldnt-guns\" title=\"D.C. Councilman: 'We oughta get rid of guns\u2026 police shouldn't have guns'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Heller decision,<\/a> crime was higher then than it is today, suggesting that restricting the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms not only doesn&#8217;t lower crime, but has the potential to increase it.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, taking away firearms from law enforcement and law-abiding citizens is every hardened criminal&#8217;s dream because an unarmed society is an easily victimized society.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a related video on the hearing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy staff won\u2019t let me tell you that I think we oughta get rid of guns in the city and that police shouldn\u2019t have guns so I\u2019m not gonna tell you that,\u201d said Councilman David Grosso. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":25858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,216],"tags":[132],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-s-h-blannelberry","9":"tag-buzz"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>D.C. 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