Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site calmasd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc6!calmasd!cjn From: cjn@calmasd.UUCP (Cheryl Nemeth) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA Message-ID: <250@calmasd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 12:38:11 EST Article-I.D.: calmasd.250 Posted: Mon Jan 14 12:38:11 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:13:15 EST References: <2974@allegra.UUCP> <1912@sun.uucp> <2504@CSL-Vax.ARPA> <1924@sun.uucp> <206@ihu1m.UUCP> <569@tty3b.UUCP>Reply-To: cjn@calmasd.UUCP (Cheryl Nemeth) Organization: Calma Company, San Diego, CA Lines: 27 Xref: watmath net.politics:6917 net.flame:7760 Summary: In article sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) writes: >> 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 Brilliant idea, banning due process. Why not just toss out the Constitution? After all, there are lots of things in it that aren't useful in a modern society. (banning slavery, freedom of the press, trial by jury; you name it and it's in there.) Just think of all the people we could keep in jail if it didn't exist! -- Cheryl Nemeth All opinions expressed in this article are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Calma Company or my cats. "Life is a series of rude awakenings" R. V. Winkle [Robert Asprin]