🚀 go-pugleaf

In dc.talk.guns, kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron) writes:
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>We discussed this one before too. If you wait for people to commit violent crim
>before doing anything about it, then (innocent) people will die unnecessarily.

Well, lets not wait any longer!  Let's go whack off _everyone's_ hands.
Nope, better make it arms, legs, and better remove their jaws, too.
This is the only way to prevent the killing of innocent people by other
people.  Seriously.  This attitude that violence and handguns were invented
at the same time in human history is phenominal.

>The object of (hand)gun control is *prevention*

Of what?  Much of the violence in DC is drug related.  Why don't we
control drugs and prevent this violence?  Why don't we spend zillions
of dollars, enact unconstitutional laws at the federal level, create
special agencies, even get the Department of Defense and National Guard
to assist.  Why, this ought to prevent just about anything, right?
Well, it doesn't seem to have prevented anyone who wants drugs from
getting drugs, now does it?

>PS If a mugger shoots you (dead) - I'll make sure they go to jail :-)

Ah, an appropriate smiley, indeed.  I'd like to see a comparison of
the number of homicides in DC vs. the number of convictions.  Also,
recient data on the average time served for murder in the District.
Not sentencing, but actual time served.  My opinion is that a potential
murderer will base his choice on not whether he can get a cool semi-automatic
mega-round magazine handgun or assault weapon, but on what will happen
to him if he does kill.
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