Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-eddie!karl From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA Message-ID: <38@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 11:22:41 EST Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.38 Posted: Mon Jan 14 11:22:41 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jan-85 02:20:42 EST References: <2974@allegra.UUCP> <1912@sun.uucp> <2504@CSL-Vax.ARPA> <1924@sun.uucp> <206@ihu1m.UUCP> <569@tty3b.UUCP> Organization: You really don't want to know 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? ---------- 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