Posted on 04/27/2007 5:56:48 AM PDT by jonyyeh
This past Tuesday the governor of Virginia announced he would close the loophole that allowed Seung-Hui Cho to buy the guns he used to kill 32 people — and himself — on the Virginia Tech campus. OK, it's a good idea to keep guns out of the hands of people who are mentally unstable. But be careful about how far the calls for gun control go, because the idea that gun control laws lower gun crime is a myth.
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Gun Control Is Not Crime Control.
BRILLIANT Line - I’m using it - and calling it my own.
Great line.
Banning guns to prevent crime is like banning cars to prevent speeding tickets...........
If it were true, NYC and DC would be Crime-Free Zones.......
Bingo - great observation - .....
Right, Jake.
The District is a stinking morass of crime, and even with superbly strict gun control laws, killings are a daily fact of life in the nation’s capital.
More laws on gun control is really an emotional response to a problem(gun related crime)that must be approached in a rational fashion. As Mr. Stossel opines, more guns in criminal hands and fewer guns in the hands of law abiding citizens make no sense.
Will use it as well; but John should 'own' it. . .and get it on a bumper sticker. . .because I want that 'one';^). . .but if he does not; guess we are free to do just that, right?
Use to be that you had to be a citizen of the USA to purchase a firearm from a dealer. What year did that change?
Had Little Red Riding Hood been raised by Liberals; the story would have a different ending.
He made one goof, worrying about teenage college students with carry permits- in VA, you must be 21 to get the paper that lets you carry.
“...the idea that gun control laws lower gun crime is a myth.”
A perfectly commonsensical understanding of reality. Unfortunately, there’s nothing less common in the modern world than common sense.
That was the year that State Democrats decided that everyone deserved a state driver's license (indistinguishable from any other citizen) so that legal and illegal aliens, along with convicts and the dead, could vote Democrat in the elections.
Banning guns would be like the banning of drugs. How is that working for us?
Not really a good example. As stated I could go for it.
Why?
Since banning drugs, they are more plentiful than ever.
Since banning drugs, there is a greater variety and greater potency than ever.
So in the sense that banning something usually gets the opposite effect, I'm not sure this is a great example.
From the Dept. of Justice:
Released prisoners with the highest rearrest rates were
robbers (70.2%),
burglars (74.0%), larcenists (74.6%),
motor vehicle thieves (78.8%),
those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%),
and those in prison for possessing, using, or selling illegal weapons (70.2%).
Within 3 years,
2.5% of released rapists were arrested for another rape, and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for homicide.
The 272,111 offenders discharged in 1994 had accumulated 4.1 million arrest charges before their most recent imprisonment and another 744,000 charges within 3 years of release.
Great if you are employed or have a business selling to the security bureaucracy
Outlawing anything will make it more desirable, creating a market for them. A gun is not hard to make:
http://www.thehomegunsmith.com/
Ban drugs, war on drugs, billions spent. It became a business and a very profitable one - more money is made ‘preventing’ illegal drugs than the sale of such. I knew the so-called war was lost when we can’t seem to keep them out of the hands of convicts in prison? Prison!
Excellent point and I’ve used it before.
If we can’t keep drugs and weapons out of the hands of convicts in prison, how the heck does any one think that the government can keep them out of the hands of (so called) free citizens?
And why should they attempt to do so?
More guns, less crime, as John Lott demonstrated.
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