Post by StonerStudent on Jan 21, 2005 14:08:39 GMT -5
San Francisco, California) A plan to ask voters to approve a ban on handguns in San Francisco has angered a gay firearms club.
In the past year San Francisco has seen a 28 percent increase in homicides during the past year. In response, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has proposed putting a question on this year's ballot that would bar residents from keeping handguns in their homes or businesses.
If passed it also would prohibit the sale, manufacture and distribution of any firearms or ammunition in San Francisco.
Since 1996 city residents have bought nearly 22,000 handguns since 1996, according to the state attorney general's office.
The San Francisco Pink Pistols, a gay and lesbian gun-rights group, has joined other pro-gun groups in opposing the initiative.
The group, the Bay Area chapter of the national Pink Pistols group, said it is organizing a letter-writing campaign to the Board of Supervisors.
"Outlawing handguns would raise crime," he said. "A handgun is a very useful defensive tool," said SF Pink Pistols spokesperson Tom Boyer.
Only two other major U.S. cities - Washington, D.C., and Chicago - have implemented handgun bans, and both were quickly challenged in the courts.
©365Gay.com 2005
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In the past year San Francisco has seen a 28 percent increase in homicides during the past year. In response, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has proposed putting a question on this year's ballot that would bar residents from keeping handguns in their homes or businesses.
If passed it also would prohibit the sale, manufacture and distribution of any firearms or ammunition in San Francisco.
Since 1996 city residents have bought nearly 22,000 handguns since 1996, according to the state attorney general's office.
The San Francisco Pink Pistols, a gay and lesbian gun-rights group, has joined other pro-gun groups in opposing the initiative.
The group, the Bay Area chapter of the national Pink Pistols group, said it is organizing a letter-writing campaign to the Board of Supervisors.
"Outlawing handguns would raise crime," he said. "A handgun is a very useful defensive tool," said SF Pink Pistols spokesperson Tom Boyer.
Only two other major U.S. cities - Washington, D.C., and Chicago - have implemented handgun bans, and both were quickly challenged in the courts.
©365Gay.com 2005
I would like to take the time to thank the DUer's for posting this on their LGBT forum.
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