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From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:22:41 EST
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>Do the pro-gun people have any suggestion other than arming everyone to the
>teeth and shooting it out in the subways and streets of America?
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Good heavens, yes. I don't exactly  walk  around with a firearm under my arm
now  myself.  Nor do I wish to. But I expect to be able to do so if  I  feel
it's necessary.

Just for starters,  how  about  properly enforcing  the  laws already on the
books concerning crimes committed with a deadly weapoon? The frequency  with
which a criminal convicted of  a  violent  crime is released on probation is
alarmingly  high. I personally am in favor of a minimum sentence of, say,  5
or 10 years with no chance  of  parole for  those  convicted of such violent
crimes.

This is one of the gun owner's primary complaints with attempts to "control"
firearms  of any kind: they add to the legislative burden of the  gun  owner
himself while expressing  no  readily-identifiable  concern to deal properly
with those who have already demonstrated their antisocial behavior.
-- 
Karl Kleinpaste @ Bell Labs, Columbus   614/860-5107  +==-> cbrma!kk
                @ Ohio State University 614/422-0915  osu-eddie!karl