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Teo One Thousand wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> In a message dated 6/2/99 6:26:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > Well let's assume that we are looking
> > at an
> > high security prison for the worst possible offenders. Where are the
> > gun
> > deaths? Where are the accidental shootings? Prisoners who want to kill
> > really have to work hard at it. Mass killings with sharpened spoons
> > just
> > don't happen.
> >
> > The simple straight fact is PEOPLE WITH GUNS KILL PEOPLE. Remove
> > either one
> > from the equation, and the outcome changes drastically. It is easier
> > to
> > remove guns than people from the equation.
> >
> > That is why it will happen.
> >
> > Joshua2
> >
>
> I grant your point, even though, as you rightly say, yours is not a perfect
> example. One must not forget, that in the environment that you have chosen
> for your example there is a much greater degree of control over every action
> of the prisoners. This is what keeps the death rate down to a great extent,
> not JUST the lack of weapons, notably guns. I know that you do not advocate
> this type of control on society in general so the analogy is flawed to some
> extent. However, point taken and conceded. My own personal opinion on the
> matter is that much more would be gained and in a better fashion if we attack
> the root of much of the death's by shooting that occur. That is crime.
> Decriminalizing drugs, and some other less drastic means than banning all gun
> ownership, except for law enforcement, are effective, and necessary in my
> opinion, things that could be done to reduce the violent crime rate,
> especially death by gun.
> Teo1000
The issue is much bigger than just crime. If crime stayed as it is
and remained unchanged, or were magically solved as a societal
problem,
the rest of the problems related to guns would still warrant their
removal
from easy access.
Joshua2
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