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Subject: Re: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 16:06:50 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?
> 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.