🚀 go-pugleaf

You're 100% right.  However, there just seems to no end in sight.
Once you go down some paths there is no turning back.

Not only should punishment be more severe in this country, it should
be consistent.  What the hell is plea bargaining?  You don't make
deals with criminals.  You punish their freaking ass.  Cut and dry.  

I'm starting to stray off the topic though.  

Getting back to guns.  To me it's just a matter of time before all but
sport rifles and shotguns are banned outright.  And why not?  I see no
problem with that.  Tell me, what does your average citizen need with
a .44?  It's ridiculous to even think that Joe Bloe needs a hand
cannon at his disposal for "protection."  There are a number of
devices that could be used to incapacitate an assailant.  Personal
artillery is not necessary.  In my book it is quite literally
overkill.

Guns are not necessary for protection.  In many cases they give a
false sense of security.  Here's a true story for you.

I had a landlord that was killed because he thought his gun was
loaded.  He confronted a robber and when he went to pull the trigger.
The chamber was empty.  The robber shot his son in the chest and then
killed him shooting him between the eyes.  His wife was left sobbing
on the ground pistol whipped with a child dying in her arms.  Luckily
he lived.  He was fortunate.  The saddest part of the story was he had
taken the pistol out a few weeks earlier and was playing around with
it showing it off to his friends.  He never reloaded it.  

Had the guy not owned a gun, things may have turned out differently.
Sure I hear you say, what if the son had reloaded it?  It doesn't
really matter now does it?  Shit like this happens all the time.
Teen-agers blowing their own friends away on accident.  Toddlers
shooting themselves.  People killing themselves cleaning their
weapons.  These are all tragic accidents that are totally unnecessary.
What makes them unnecessary?  There is NO reason to have a gun in the
first place.  As I said, there are a plethora of devices that can be
used in defense that don't involve assault weaponry.

Once the weapons are banned.  Ban the ammunition.  Then ban devices
for making ammunition.  If anyone breaks accordance with any of those
laws put them away and throw away the key.  Treat them as if they were
domestic terrorists.  It may not solve the problem overnight, but I
promise you it wouldn't be long before handguns would be a memory.

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 00:27:46 -0400, "Frank_Rizzo"
<riz...@FARTalltel.net.net> wrote:


>What's amazing is we have more gun laws than we ever had in the history of
>our nation, and yet more people get killed by guns! Maybe we have been
>looking in the wrong places? We have been giving our government more and
>more control over our lives. Has it helped? I believe it's time we took a
>stand and didn't pass our responcibilities over to our government, and more
>laws and regulations. Somewhere there is a flaw. You can regulate the crap
>out of guns, and if people want to kill, they will find a way. Simple. All
>the school shootings recently... tons of _laws_ broken. Laws don't help
>enough... We need restrictions, but we also need strong moral leaders. Look
>at the Clinton/Lewinski deal... Most Americans said "Who cares.... no big
>deal"... I think it is a big deal... not because he had sex, but because he
>broke the law. What kind of moral example does that set? What does that
>teach our children? It's okay to break the law for certain things? What
>things? This has been the cause of the moral decay in this country. I
>believe this moral decay has a major part in the crimes comitted by our
>youth. It's our own fault, and no law is going to fix the problem.
>

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