Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 / QGSI 2.0; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!qubix!lab From: lab@qubix.UUCP (Q-Bick) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA Message-ID: <1590@qubix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 16:06:50 EST Article-I.D.: qubix.1590 Posted: Mon Jan 14 16:06:50 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 04:55:16 EST References: <2974@allegra.UUCP> <1912@sun.uucp> <2504@CSL-Vax.ARPA> <1924@sun.uucp>, <206@ihu1m.UUCP> <569@tty3b.UUCP> <1936@sun.uucp> Organization: Quadratix ... Quartix Lines: 22 > > 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? > Yes, fix the revolving-door "due-process" system so that criminals are kept > off the streets, so they don't keep getting out of the slammer to repeatedly > mug,rob,rape and kill. When there is the fear of death in the minds of > criminals, then crime will stop, and not till then. Because they know they > can get away with murder and literally be back out on the streets in a max of > 7 years with good behaviour even on a "life" sentence, they continue to find > crime profitable. When they fear that plain-vanilla citizens will shoot back > (un-ban handguns), or that they will in fact either remain in jail for life, > or get killed by the justice system, then they will stop being criminals. > -- > {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny The cities that have adopted MANDATORY weapon ordinances (e.g., the one in Georgia that did it just to spite Morton Grove) have all experienced a significant DECREASE in crime. -- The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford {amd,decwrl,sun,idi,ittvax}!qubix!lab You can't settle the issue until you've settled how to settle the issue.