As John Lott’s scholarship (see his book, More Guns, Less Crime) shows, San Francisco’s impending ban on handgun ownership, if effective, will lead to a surge in crime, especially armed assaults. This in turn wil depress housing values in the city, imposing billions of dollars in capital losses on all those home-owning leftists who voted for the measure. Good for ’em, they deserve it. But there’s hope: In D.C., where handguns have been banned for decades (and the murder rate is perennially among the highest in the land), the police have actually held neighborhood seminars on the safe use of … Continue reading re: Those San Francisco Totalitarians