>>>>>Exactly. I don't understand why gun regulation nuts disregard the comment that if you outlaw guns, then only the criminals will have guns.
>>>>
>>>>But that's exactly the point. If only criminals have guns, you can arrest and punish them.
>>>>
>>>>Tamar
>>>
>>>But can't a criminal with an illegal weapon be arrested anyway. So thats not really a very good argument.
>>
>>Of course, but it sure is a lot easier when you know that if they have a gun, it's illegal.
>>
>>Tamar
>
>I think the gun should be sold and the money put into the police budget. The gun is not the offender. The problem is we don't punish the criminals. Little ol Memphis has over 50,000 people who have been arrested more than 5 times. Over 100 have been arrested more than 100 times, including one guy who hit the number 449 before he finally got run over and killed.
>
Did you have to back over him, or was the first hit enough ? <s>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
