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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
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Posted: Mon Mar  4 11:43:04 1985
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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