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In article <CzDpML.L6L@zadall.com> John Bartol (jbart@zadall.com) wrote:

> I have one question: what 
> happens if someone takes your firearm(s) and uses them for illegal purposes?

Since it is they who committed the crime, it is they who should be punished.

What happens if someone takes your car(s) and uses them for illegal
purposes?

> Okay, let's say there are, oh, 30,000 firearms in Canada. Wait, let's say
> there are 30,000,000 firearms in Canada (I know, silly number but I have a
> point to make :-)

Why is that a silly number? It's a closer estimate than the former number.

> Now, some twit breaks in to your house and steals a weapon (yes, mags are
> to be kept separate from the weapon, etc., etc., but people can be
> careless). S/He then uses it and kills someone. Is that reasonable?

In what context do you ask if it is reasonable? If you are suggesting that I
should be punished because a criminal stole my firearm and killed someone
with it, then I would suggest that you should be punished for allowing that
criminal to break into my house. It makes just as much sense.

> if the total
> availability of weapons is reduced, then it makes [CRIMINAL ACTIONS] more
> difficult.

It will only make it more difficult for ordinary citizens to get firearms.
There is no lack of available black market firearms, no matter how many you
take from law abiding citizens.

For more "domestic" situations, where there is a will, there is a way; if
there is no firearm, there will always be poisons, bats, vehicles, knives or
some other readily available weapon, even if someone has to improvise. Same
goes for suicides.

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