On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:26:30 -0500, "What Me Worry?"
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"Bill Funk" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:43:39 -0500, "What Me Worry?"
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"Hertz_Donut" wrote in message
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"Neil Ellwood" wrote in message
news On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:22:24 -0600, Notan wrote:

G.I. Cho wrote:
How many more tragedies is it going to take before we wake up? We
have
a serious gun problem in this country and it's time to take a stand.
Let the farmers and hunters keep the rifles and shotguns. Get rid of
the pistols and the assault rifles unless you want to go over and
fight
in Iraq.

Please explain exactly how one bans unregistered handguns.

Sentencing everyone who is convicted of having one to 30 years
imprisonment with hard labour and basic food only would lessen the
problem in a few years - of course no country would have the courage to
do this.


Wow...just when I thought that idiocy had reached it's limit...

You're not in favor of jailing criminals?

Owning a gun is not a crime.

If it was, anyone posessing a gun could be immediately arrested. What would
that do for violent crime stats? Gang turf wars?

And how would this work, exactly?
I mean, what sort of "magic" would determine if someone posessed a
gun?
This *sounds* real good; just like saying anyone posessing cocaine
will be immediately arrested. The problems are determining who is in
posession, and in having the wherewithall to effectthe arrests.
Obviously, th US (and most countries) lack the ability to do both.

How are you going to pay for the thousands of prisons that would need to
be built? How are you going to pay for the cost of keeping each gun law
breaker for 30 years?

Why are you soft on gun crime?

Owning a gun is not a crime.

Handguns are illegal in Britain. Banning handguns is good for America.

Britain is not bereft of gun crime; you know that.
Banning an item does not instantly cause that item to disappear. You
know that, too.
Laes do not prevent crime; you know that, too, but it's an iconvenient
truth.

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