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Lebell · 09-09-2005, 11:35 AM

Automatic handguns are also extremely rare and hard to get.

No, I didn't miss your point, but my response is two fold: first, terms ARE important, not only to discuss the issue intelligently, but also to understand what it is.

Second, I agree that guns make it easier, but according to Her Magisty's government, so do knives. Last time I checked, English lawmakers were alarmed by the increasing knife violence and where considering making it a crime to have kitchen knives over a certain length without a license.

The point is that you are addressing the symptoms of violence without addressing the root causes. If you outlaw knives, people WILL start using baseball bats. And if you outlaw those, then it will be sticks, then rocks, ad naseum.

The root causes for most gun violence remain poverty and drug use and their related scourge, gang activity. There is where you need to focus your efforts.

As to myself, I would hardly consider 3 long guns and 5 handguns "fanatical". But then again, maybe you do.

09-09-2005, 11:35 AM	#117 (permalink)
Lebell Cracking the Whip Location: Sexymama's arms...	Automatic handguns are also extremely rare and hard to get. No, I didn't miss your point, but my response is two fold: first, terms ARE important, not only to discuss the issue intelligently, but also to understand what it is. Second, I agree that guns make it easier, but according to Her Magisty's government, so do knives. Last time I checked, English lawmakers were alarmed by the increasing knife violence and where considering making it a crime to have kitchen knives over a certain length without a license. The point is that you are addressing the symptoms of violence without addressing the root causes. If you outlaw knives, people WILL start using baseball bats. And if you outlaw those, then it will be sticks, then rocks, ad naseum. The root causes for most gun violence remain poverty and drug use and their related scourge, gang activity. There is where you need to focus your efforts. As to myself, I would hardly consider 3 long guns and 5 handguns "fanatical". But then again, maybe you do. __________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis The ONLY sponsors we have are YOU! Please Donate!