I learned something new yesterday: the District of Columbia has the lowest suicide rate in the country.  Why?  Until the Supreme Court decided otherwise, DC had a tough handgun law - few handguns in homes=fewer suicides.

Common Cause has no position on gun laws, but we do strongly support democratic rights for DC (as well as everywhere else).  But some in Congress are prepared to tromp all over DC home rule and impose an ill-considered gun law on DC -- even though the DC City Council already passed a temporary law in response to the Supreme Court decision and is working on a permanent law.

Global warming, high gas prices, economic distress, health care?  Forget it - Congress has better things to do: Dump on the rights of DC to pass its own laws, something they would never do to their own hometowns.

Read on for the text of a coalition letter: