claim: "washington, d.c., had some of the strictest gun laws in the country. and when they passed them, violence skyrocketed."
author: marco rubio
evidence_1: dec 1, 2013 ... research, gun bans, homicide, police, murder. ... now australia didn't have a  complete ban on guns, they didn't even ban ... much of the debate over gun  control focuses on what is called ...... washington dc had some of the highest  murder rates in the country ... very strict gun control didn't save the french.
evidence_2: feb 11, 2013 ... rubio has become a key figure in the national debate over immigration ... our  most recent fact-check of rubio was a claim about washington, d.c. and guns.  he said in a fox interview, "washington, d.c. had some of the strictest gun laws  in the country and when they passed them, violence skyrocketed."
evidence_3: oct 5, 2015 ... realistically, a gun control plan that has any hope of getting us down to ... but the  reforms those countries enacted are far more dramatic than anything us ... which  is only true for a certain restrictive definition, as in 2014 a man shot ... the  supreme court struck down washington, dc's handgun ban in 2008.
evidence_4: feb 4, 2013 ... however, gun control ceased to exist during mr. capone's heyday in the roaring  '20s. chicago has the strictest gun-control laws in the country.
evidence_5: mar 14, 2008 ... 24, 1976, one of the toughest gun laws in the nation took effect in the district of ...  since the ban was passed, more than 8,400 people have been ... a strict gun law  like washington's has any effect on violent crime. ... they argued the ban had  prevented 47 deaths per year in d.c., both suicides and murders.