NRA Snubs Columbus Over Gun Ban
# Wayne LaPierre at NRA-ILA - City Council Drives Freedom and NRA Out of Columbus - the NRA was planning its 2007 convention in Columbus, Ohio. Not any more. Columbus banned so-called assault weapons, so the NRA is pulling out. Bravo! [scopeny]
Thanks to your Columbus City Council, at least twenty million dollars of new tourist revenue will not boost the economy of Columbus in 2007.
You'd think a city council would do their homework. You know -- find out if their gun-ban scheme worked anywhere else before they turn good citizens into criminals overnight.
The U.S. Congress already tried this exact same gun ban. Nationwide. For ten straight years. That's enough time to learn if it works, right?
It was such a miserable failure that after ten years they called it off last September. And since they ended the gun ban, crime has gone down!