An Alienated Rural Democrat's plea from 2004

[virginia mountainman]

4. Absolutely...

This would be a good start!! Project Exile

During the first year of Project Exile (1998), homicides in Richmond declined 33%, for the lowest number since 1987, and armed robberies declined 30%. In 1999, homicides declined another 21%.[2] By 2007, homicides in Richmond were down to 57 compared to 122 in the year before Project Exile.[4]

Research analysts offered different opinions as to the program's success in reducing gun crime. Authors of a 2003 analysis of the program argued that the decline in gun homicide was part of a general regression to the mean across U.S. cities with high homicide rates.[13] Authors of a 2005 study disagreed, concluding that Richmond's gun homicide rate fell more rapidly than the rates in other large U.S. cities with other influences controlled.[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Exile


The key to not alienating most gun owners, is not treating them like THEY are the problem, and write silly laws that only affect them. Most of these gun control laws, ONLY cause problems for the law abiding. And many of these bans and strict restrictions only make new felons out of people who had an item that was legal one day, and banned the next..

Its criminal how ignorant some of these laws are.