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Historically, one of the first steps of any new tyrant has been to disarm the public, which makes this very disturbing indeed :

A crackdown on guns is meeting some resistance in the District.

Police are asking residents to submit to voluntary searches in exchange for amnesty under the District\’s gun ban. They passed out fliers requesting cooperation on Monday.

The program will begin in a couple of weeks in the Washington Highlands neighborhood of southeast Washington and will later expand to other neighborhoods. Officers will go door to door asking residents for permission to search their homes.

Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said the \”safe homes initiative\” is aimed at residents who want to cooperate with police. She gave the example of parents or grandparents who know or suspect their children have guns in the home.

Voluntary searches I\’m sure. And anyone refusing such a requested search I\’m sure won\’t end up on an unofficial \”suspected\” list. And in this age where virtually everything is a technical violation of some archaic law, I\’m sure that won\’t be used against anyone. Anyone that believes that, I know of some great oceanfront property in Oklahoma.

Simply amazes me that in a city well known for it\’s high level of crime, the police department is expending valuable resources verifying that each house is definitively disarmed and vulnerable to any violent criminal that chooses to make them a victim.

In the very city, which was source of Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981), which stated that the police don\’t actually have a duty to protect you. So now, when seconds matter, and the police are only minutes away, the DC police department will verify the populace will not even have the ability to defend themselves.

Unbelievable. How any police officer in the District of Columbia can put on their uniform with any level of pride any more is beyond me.