[Montfort]

Colorado's Project Exile was modeled on a similar program established in 1997 in the high-crime city of Richmond, Virginia. Violent crime there steadily declined in 1998, 1999 and 2000. Proponents of Project Exile, including Strickland and President Bush, have repeatedly pointed to these statistics as proof that Project Exile works. But this argument ignores the fact that violent crime has declined in cities all over the country, something many experts have attributed to the booming U.S. economy of the late 1990s.

I, too, have a problem with the fact that there is no distinction between violenta nd nonviolent felonies, but I am sure that almost all felons are aware that they can't own guns. Not all laws are necessarily fair, but this one is no less fair than the one that says the government can take up to 55 percent of your assets when you die.

That drop in violent crime might have something to do with the glut in prison space that liberals like to complain about, now that crime has dropped from criminals realizing that there is plenty of space for them.

The same author who would complain that some 60 IQ guy who had homemade brass knuckles now can't own a gun would probably have no problem if every middle class suburbanite lost his or her right to own a firearm.

[okie01]

"The same author who would complain that some 60 IQ guy who had homemade brass knuckles now can't own a gun would probably have no problem if every middle class suburbanite lost his or her right to own a firearm."

My impression, exactly.

Holthouse wrings his hands over gun-toting felons being deprived of their liberty. But he would cheer any and all attempts to disarm you.