I've got the solution for what to do with the mentally ill in this country: We'll build a huge wall around San Francisco and send the mentally ill from far and wide to live with their brothers and sisters who already live there. After all, now that the sane people have to turn in their guns, most of them won't want to live there anyway.

We've always known San Francisco was a loony bin and they proved in spades last week by voluntarily signing away their fundamental right to keep and bear arms. The idea that a select group of insane leftist idiots can sign away the constitutional rights of EVERYONE who decides (God only knows why) to live in the asylum with them is rampant idiocy. Haven't these people heard of the arduous process necessary for amending the U.S. Constitution? They made it tough to amend for a reason: So empty-headed jackasses like San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom can't summon enough like-minded morons to usurp the rights of the rest of us. Fortunately, the National Rifle Association knows this and that's why they are filing suit against the city to prevent this affront to common sense and the constitution from being enacted:

SAN FRANCISCO – The National Rifle Association sued Wednesday to overturn an ordinance voters here overwhelmingly approved a day earlier that bans handgun possession and sales of firearms in the city.

Measure H was put on Tuesday's ballot by the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors, who were frustrated by the alarmingly high number of gun-related homicides in this city of 750,000 residents.

The NRA has had to step in to save San Franciscans from themselves once before back in 1982, which is why the likelihood of this ordinance standing up in court is virtually nil:

In 1982, a state appeals court nullified an almost identical gun ban here largely on grounds that the city cannot enact an ordinance that conflicts with state law that allows for the sale and possession of handguns and ammunition.

State law, hell: What about the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America?

The NRA filed its lawsuit Wednesday with the same court, the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco, asking the judges to nullify the law that demands the surrender of handguns by April.

"Cities do not have the authority under the state law to ban the possession of handguns," said NRA president Wayne LaPierre.

The group also claims the law unfairly puts San Francisco residents at a disadvantage, denying them the means to protect themselves. The law does not bar nonresidents from lawfully possessing handguns within city limits.

But Newsom and the city attorney are undaunted:

Mayor Gavin Newsom has acknowledged the measure likely wouldn't withstand legal scrutiny, but said it had symbolic value.

Regardless, City Attorney Dennis Herrera said his office would vigorously defend the ordinance.

"The electorate sent a strong message that local governments have a strong role in curbing violence in our streets," Herrera said Wednesday.

He noted that the 1982 San Francisco measure was overturned because it applied to all people within city limits, regardless of whether they lived here.

"The court at the time determined that it was not a municipal affair and was pre-empted," Herrera said.

The latest measure, approved by 58 percent of voters, "is purely a municipal affair and not pre-empted because it applies to local residents only," he added.

The truly laughable part of this whole issue is the idea that you make citizens safer by taking away their ability to defend themselves. The fact that city leaders of one of the most liberal cities in the country are alarmed at the amount of gun homicides in their city is a clue that the leftist approach to curbing violent crime doesn't work. If Newsom and Herrera really wanted to see gun deaths plummet in their little insane asylum by the sea, they would issue a .38 to every citizen and provide training in how to use them.

A quick query of the Bureau of Justice Statistics web site will show you that cities that have gun bans actually have much higher gun crime rates. In fact, Washington D.C., which has one of the highest gun crime rates in the country has had a ban on the registration and possession of handguns for nearly 30 years. D.C.'s gun crime rate is still one of the highest in the nation despite the fact that the rate of gun crimes has dropped dramatically since the enactment of concealed carry laws across the country beginning in the late-80s. Another largely unpublicized fact is this: The localities that have seen the biggest drop in gun crimes and violent crime overall are the ones that have concealed-carry laws. Trusting citizens to protect themselves with handguns works. But we all know that San Francisco has a fine tradition of enacting ordinances that fly in the face of the facts and common sense.

While we're on the subject of common sense, let's throw out another often-overlooked bit of common sense: THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKELY TO COMMIT VIOLENT CRIMES WITH GUNS AREN'T GOING TO OBEY A GUN BAN. This is sooooooo obvious it's almost embarrassing to even have to point it out. But then logic, common sense, reason and the facts don't have any place in liberalism, which is why the city of San Francisco has had a de facto ban on logic, common sense and reason for decades now. As someone I heard on a talk show this weekend pointed out, it’s only fitting that San Franciscans have until April Fools Day to turn in their weapons.