VPC claims Washington DC's gun laws necessary to prevent epidemic of suicides

It hasn't been long since I discussed the latest silliness from the VPC, but the more I think about it, the more I feel compelled to point out the utter absence of logic in the VPC press release. The fact that nothing in DC's homicide stats provides much reason for faith in the efficacy of gun bans in reducing violence, thus forcing the VPC to instead concentrate on suicides, is rather telling.

I utterly reject the contemptible scare tactics used by citizen disarmament advocates--"Only 'gun-control' will save you from crackheads and gangbangers," or, "Only 'gun-control' will save you from angry, white 'gun nuts,'" or, "Only 'gun-control' will save you from terrorists," etc., but at least such Chicken Little fear mongering tacitly acknowledges that part of the problem is evil people, who commit evil acts, with guns.

But with this, we are apparently being told that only "gun-control" will save Washington DC residents from . . . themselves. If I were a DC resident, I would have trouble not taking that as a rather harsh insult, implying that only through the noble efforts of the benign DC officials am I being prevented from offing myself. How blessed DC residents must feel to have such paragons of wisdom watching over them.

While the VPC defends DC for supposedly protecting residents from themselves, we are apparently expected to ignore the fact DC's laws prevent citizens from protecting themselves (despite the well-known fact that police are under no obligation to provide the protection that citizens are denied from providing themselves).

That's a fool's bargain--which, perhaps, makes DC as good a place as any for it.