🚀 go-pugleaf

Dan Berkes-Lemos wrote:

> In article <68i3ur$eer$1@nnrp1.crl.com>, pstrogenANTISPAM@crl.com wrote:
> >  It would more than likely keep it out of the hands of morons and
> >  punks!
> Just like it would keep guns out of their hands, too, right?

Much less so.  If California banned pepper spray, Californians could easily buy
the stuff in neighboring states.  That doesn't work with guns, unless you want to
establish residency in the other state and/or risk 5 years imprisonment, per
firearm.

> Fine, "most people" understand this, yet "some people" still pull the
> trigger, and "a lot of people" die from that action, probably much more
> than have keeled over from a snoot full of pepper spray. All the years and
> decades of prohibition and regulation still hasn't stopped it.

Yeah, I'm surprised liberals don't all *love* pepper spray.  If they really wanted
to end "gun violence" rather than create a society of cowards, they'd push pepper
spray as an alternative to guns (and perhaps as an excuse for more gun control).

> >  Pepper spray should have never been made available to the
> >  general public in the first place.
> Again, you would rather have a much more powerful and lethal weapon, such
> as a gun, in the hands of the general public? Or do you merely expect the
> general public to become a meek society of victims?

He probably wants the latter.  I love hearing criminal sympathizers whine about
how inhumane it is for the rest of us to protect ourselves through any means,
lethal or non-lethal.  All those poor, misunderstood thugs are trying to do is
earn an honest living like the rest of us....