Common Sense When the violent crime rate rose dramatically in San Francisco, while dropping in many other places around the nation, the city's politicians embraced the idea of banning handgun ownership, as Washington D.C. essentially has done -- without noting that violent crime remains a lethal problem in the district that is often referred to as the nation's murder capital. Now, police have seen dramatic success with a strategy that others have used -- concentrating on going after the bad guys while leaving alone innocent gun owners who obey the law. FOXNews reports they're using laws that have been on the books for years.