Kathy E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill lets try a hypothetical here, lets say there are no guns in the US
but we still have a high murder rate, only the murders are now done with
knives, do we then outlaw knife ownership? Then the killers turn to
strangulation, do we outlaw anything you can strangle a person with?
What if they use poison? Is that then taken out of our country? Do we
get rid of all defensive weapons in the US, even to the military because
they are now illegal? Where do you stop at Bill?
Banning the guns is ineffective we already know that look at DC where
your not allowed to own a gun, but look at their murder rate. When are
people going to stop placing the blame on a object instead of facing the
real problem the people who do these murders? That Bill is the problem I
see, it's not the guns it's the people who get the guns and what they do
with them.
Just because you take away one way to murder doesn't mean murder
suddenly stops, people are creative and they always come up with new
ways to murder. Look at the case we just followed the Jones case, 4 kids
and a mother all stabbed to death, no gun there Bill. Yet they are all
still dead. Look at the Simpson case two people killed yet again with a
knife. Maybe it's people we should outlaw?
Oh I can also say to you Bill crime has gone up in areas where there is
a ban on guns how do you explain that? You see I can play the statistic
game also. But that's all it is, a little numbers game.
William J. Foristal wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William J. Foristal) writes:
>
> Hi Kathy,
>
> Crime went down in a lot of other areas that did not legalize guns. I
> wonder how they explain that one. :) Let's face it. We have the highest
> number of guns per capita than most any other country in the world. And
> our crime rate (particularly the murder rate) is one of the highest in
> the world. Especially when you consider crimes committed by citizens
> against fellow citizens.
>
> IMO, anyone who argues that these two things are not related is simply
> kidding themselves. I'm not saying that total gun control or a ban on
> gun ownership should be enacted. But I DO think some common sense
> controls need to be in place. Many of them have been enacted already,
> but typically due to the effects of a strong gun lobby, the legislation
> is so watered down by the time it is passed that it has little or no
> effect.
>
> Until we wake up to the real problem we will continue to have incidents
> like the one in Jonesboro, IMO.
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Kathy E
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