Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site erix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!enea!erix!mike From: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Handgun control, again... Message-ID: <769@erix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 11:43:04 EST Article-I.D.: erix.769 Posted: Mon Mar 4 11:43:04 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 11:41:28 EST References: <3745@umcp-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams) Distribution: net Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 22 Summary: In article <3745@umcp-cs.UUCP> prophet@umcp-cs.UUCP (Dennis Gibbs) writes: >So this means that if we outlaw guns, then 100% of handguns used in crimes >will be stolen, instead of 50%. Outlawing guns will have the effect of >causing MORE crime, that is, the crimes committed to steal handguns. There >is simply no way to completely recover all handguns, the criminals will >always have them.... > > Dennis So that's the real problem in a nutshell! There are so many guns in the US that it's too late to do anything about it. Why not then just ban the selling of amunition. Sooner or later it's bound to run out. Or even better, why not fill every 100th round with TNT so that it blows off the hand of the person firing? Should please all the gun collectors on the net too. They just collect guns and would never dream of using them! Moral for us in Europe: Let's make sure we never get into this mess. Stange isn't it that I've never heard of a European organisation promoting the free ownership of guns in Europe? Mike Williams