"The District of Columbia`s request for cert made a simple argument: Whatever one thinks of the Second Amendment, banning handguns is a "reasonable regulation" to protect public safety. Indeed, most of the city`s brief focused on public safety arguments. The problem for the city is that anyone who can look up the crime numbers will see that D.C.`s murder and violent crime rates went up, not down, after the ban.
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