The Sept. 3 Metro article on killings and woundings from shootings, “At least 5 killed, 6 wounded in spate of D.C. shootings,” described D.C’s war zone. Even the police are edgier because gun parts without serial numbers are being assembled more easily than Lego toys, and the cops can’t find these weapons with untraceable parts to confiscate them.
These “small” guns have more killing power than Revolutionary-era cannons. Yet, under the Supreme Court’s rewriting of legal history, judges have decided that caches of gun parts without serial numbers must be proved to be used for crimes before being removed by police. By that “logic,” burglars caught with burglary tools must be proved to not be intending to use the tools for an archaeology dig.
And the body counts keep getting higher.
Mark Czarnolewski, Silver Spring