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Article #3378Re: GUN CONTROL (was: Re: I'd just like to say I support Ann for Governor
From: Brian Lee Gnad
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 12:03
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 12:03
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In article <wcaspers.58.00013E3C@bangate.compaq.com> wcaspers@bangate.compaq.com (William Casperson) writes: >From: wcaspers@bangate.compaq.com (William Casperson) >Subject: Re: GUN CONTROL (was: Re: I'd just like to say I support Ann for Governor >Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 07:14:34 GMT >>Questions: >1 Do you (or anyone else who wants to respond) support increasing > the rate of incarceration even more than it has been? >2 Do you believe this helps reduce violent crime? >3 More generally, what should be done to reduce the criminal use of guns? >Answers. >1. I support increasing the rate of incarceration. Criminals must pay for >there crimes to the extent that our laws dictate. Present laws must be >enforced, period. Lack of enforcement leads to contempt for the law. If laws >are unfair, change them, don't break them. >2. I do not believe that this will reduce violent crime. I think that we >have >deep problems in our society that must be addressed. This is the only >way to >reduce violent crime. >3. What should be done to reduce the criminal use of guns? Good question. >Fair question. Basically, reduce the number of criminals. Honestly, I do not >know how to do that. I am not a sociologist or whatever, but I do know that >as long as we argue irrelevant issues, such as keeping honest citizens from >purchasing guns, we will never get to the real issue of criminals, and >criminal reduction. I can point out the problems with the best of them, but >seeing that no-one is even interested in discussing solutions, no real results >can ever be expected. At least the NRA is looking at potential solutions. One answer would seem to be, if the pray are as well armed as the preditors, the preditors would eather decline and/or find new less chalanging pray. think of it as evloution in action. - Brian Lee Gnad ============================================================================= = "Conan, What is Best In Life? - To Crush your enemies, to drive them before = you and to hear the lamentations of there women!" - Conan The Barbarian = My Opinions reflect my own reality, Not My employers = Internet: bdang@sccsi.com = Compuserve: 70760,1446 = PGP 2.6 Key ID <F88E3269> Fingerprint <82F2FE5D 575B9D6F 13F2CBB1 ADF95E9F> =============================================================================
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