Gns in D.C

Courtesy of Say Uncle, we go to this link, where D.C. Councilman Phil Mendelson is quoted:

Mendelson says obeying the Supreme Court would hamper public safety. "It would be harder to arrest chronic criminals, because police would no longer be able to charge them with possessing unregistered weapons," Mendelson wrote.

And Mendelson shows that he's an idiot.

It's easy to arrest a chronic criminal who is holding a gun. He's probably in violation of one or more of the statutes that prohibit convicted criminals from having a gun. Possession is possession.

And, if the "chronic criminal" hasn't been convicted of a crime, then he's not a chronic criminal, and all the rights of citizenship flow to him.

We all know that there are criminals amongst us who have never been convicted, but that is more a failure of the Courts than a failure of the law. Mendelson would do better to insist that the criminal justice system in D.C. vigorously prosecute "chronic criminals" and take them out of society. If he's concerned about public safety.