jimbo@sonic.net (Jim Bianchi) wrote in
news:slrnbiu8d0.61f.jimbo@bolt.sonic.net: 

> On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 02:07:42 GMT, Mitchell Holman
> <ta2eeneNoemail@comcast.com> wrote:
>>somd_jim2002@yahoo.com (Jim) wrote in
>>news:1a9cb195.0308041229.6af457c2@posting.google.com: 
>>
>>> Mitchell Holman <ta2eeneNoemail@comcast.com> wrote in message
>>> news:<Xns93CC8EEC08C4Eta2eenew@204.127.204.17>...  
>>>>     And NYC, whose extremely restrictive gun law the gunnies whine
>>>> about, doesn't even make it into the top 20. And your point
>>>> is.....? 
>>>  
>>> Is it your point that it took the Sullivan Act about 70 years to
>>> work? Oh, well, as well all know, nothing compare to
>>> gun-crime-ridden Vermont, eh, Mitchyboy?
>>> 
>>   So explain why Florida with all it's CCW "protection" leads the
>>   country 
>>in violent crime, Little Jimbo.
> 
>      Those who avail themselves of CCW are NOT charged with dealing
>      with 
> crime -- violent or not. 


    Sounds like a good reason for all gun purchasers
to go thru CCW training. 


> That is the job of the local police and
> sheriffs depts and the state police. Stopping (or having an effect on)
> violent crime was NEVER a rationale for Floridas (or any other states)
> 'shall issue' CCW legislation. Rather it was to allow an individual
> citizen to defend himself against violence at need. I rather suspect
> what 'violent crime' there is in Florida is not being successfully
> perpetrated on many CCW licensees. Neither are these violent crimes
> being perpetrated by those CCW licencees. 
> 
>      Now you explain why Washington D.C., with it's ban on firearm
> possession, has such a high rate of murder with firearms? 


    Ditto for Dallas. And New Orleans, which on occasion
has topped DC for the "murder capital" title. 

    If you are going to link DC crime to DC gun laws,
why aren't you linking Dallas crime to Dallas gun laws 
and New Orleans crime to New Orleans gun laws?

   If it weren't for Double Standards you guys would
have no standards at all.