D.C. residents finally able to get concealed carry permits for self defense....

[2aguy]

Yep...after losing in court, the D.C. permit ban is finally over...and D.C. residents are getting their permits in record numbers...

Background checks in D.C. triple after city officials drop appeal of concealed carry ruling

Federal background checks tripled last month in the nation’s capitol after city officials said they wouldn’t appeal a circuit court ruling on its concealed carry law.

Some 217 Washington, D.C. residents submitted applications to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in October. More than two-thirds sought concealed handgun licenses, according to federal data, compared with just one permit application the month before. In October 2016 — the busiest year on record for NICS, and by proxy, gun sales — no one applied for a license.

The explosion of background checks follows city council’s Oct.5 decision to drop its appeal in the ongoing legal battle of Wrenn v. District of Columbia, fearing a loss at the Supreme Court could further loosen gun regulations across the country — just as the landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller did a decade ago.

 

[usmbguest5318]

How useful is a gun to one who gets shot dead (or incapacitated) before they they can "defend" themselves? Perhaps we can query some of the carry-permit holding people for whom that was the circumstance of their demise....

Among people in my cohort of D.C. residents -- which is to say folks who are prudent enough not to draw a gun merely because they are ticked off at another or about some situation -- the risk that they'll need to defend their home or personal space from assault such that they can and must use a gun to do so is slim to none. Are there situations in which having a gun can be a key success factor in one's successfully defending oneself? Yes, but not many, and there will be even fewer if one's would-be assailant suspects one might have a gun; such a cur will merely choose more clandestine tactics to exacting their vengeance. The rest of D.C.'s residents are friggin' hothead who have no business owning a gun; however, they quite likely will pass the controls currently in place that prohibit them from carrying one.

 

[DarkFury]

How useful is a gun to one who gets shot dead (or incapacitated) before they they can "defend" themselves? Perhaps we can query some of the carry-permit holding people for whom that was the circumstance of their demise....

Among people in my cohort of D.C. residents -- which is to say folks who are prudent enough not to draw a gun merely because they are ticked off at another or about some situation -- the risk that they'll need to defend their home or personal space from assault such that they can and must use a gun to do so is slim to none. Are there situations in which having a gun can be a key success factor in one's successfully defending oneself? Yes, but not many, and there will be even fewer if one's would-be assailant suspects one might have a gun; such a cur will merely choose more clandestine tactics to exacting their vengeance. The rest of D.C.'s residents are friggin' hothead who have no business owning a gun; however, they quite likely will pass the controls currently in place that prohibit them from carrying one.

I myself have never questioned a dead person but since your party can get them to vote it could be interesting!