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Quote from Lt. Lowell Duckett,

Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith and Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed.



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Lt. Lowell Duckett (more quotes by Lt. Lowell Duckett or books by/about Lt. Lowell Duckett)


President of Washington D.C.'s Black Police Caucus

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made in reference to a meeting between police and city residents held to discuss what firearms were legal for self-defense within D.C. March 19, 1996;
quoted in the WASHINGTON POST, front page, March 22, 1996.

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Control, Crime, Defense, Guns, Law, Theft

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