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>In article <NEWTNews.4814.782702587.woolfson@woolfson.unicom.net> Eric Woolfson <woolf@unicom.net> writes:
>  Prohibition didn't stop us from drinking - and alcohol is still
>> a bigger killer every year than guns if you believe the AMA stats.
>
>	Well, the prohition-era ban on machine guns reduced their use 
>   in crime to zero.

Whoop-de-do. All this law did was prevent law-abiding citizens from getting
MGs. It created another class of weapons - illegal/unregistered machines
guns. Which are being used in more crimes right now than ever before. They
are the weapon of choice for drive-bys, where spray and pray is the
strategy. Seems we have one every week here in Dallas, and the media is
quick to point out the MG use.

If you believe NFA/34 de-facto ban on machine guns has prevented criminals
from getting machine guns, then you probably believe that by prohibiting
pharmacies from selling cocaine, drug addicts are no longer able to obtain
cocaine.

> In fact, the Bush ban on imported assault 
> weapons has resulted in a 45% drop in THEIR use in crime, just
> since 1989.

What a phony statistic this is. Think about it. Just how do you know the
country of origin of a weapon that is used in a crime? Last I checked,
criminals, unless they were dead or captured, did not leave their weapons
at the scene of the crime for demographic analysis.

And what relevance does it have anyway? If you are the victim of a crime,
are you some how better off if the weapon was domestically manufactured?
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