Items in talk.politics.guns

Subject:Re: Gun Control in DC
Date:Tue, 05 Aug 2003 05:01:05 GMT
From:"Morton Davis" <oglrethorpe@oglethorpe.com>
Newsgroups:alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.guns,dc.general

"< Robin >" <spring908@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "Mitchell Holman" <ta2eeneNoemail@comcast.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns93CDD74D062AFta2eenew@204.127.204.17...
> > "RD (The Sandman)" <RD(almost)sandman@(impossibly)comcast.net> wrote in
> > news:Xns93CD5B9E074D8hopewell@206.127.4.25:
> >
> > > Mitchell Holman <ta2eeneNoemail@comcast.com> wrote in
> > > news:Xns93CCA7FF87D32ta2eenew@216.148.227.77:
> > >
> > >
> > >>> Gun control doesn't work as advertised.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>     Neither does CCW, judging by the Dallas
> > >> crime rate.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> DC didn't use to be in the top
> > >>> 10, now it is....consistently.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>    And the leading state for violent crime
> > >> consistently is.....Florida. So much for the
> > >> "protection" of CCW laws, eh?
> > >
> > > IOW, most gun control laws have little or no effect on crime.  CCW has
> > > very little or no effect on total crime.  Why then are the antis so
> > > set against honest people having guns?
> >
> >
> >     Could it be because of so many "honest people"
> > flipping out and going on shooting rampages?
> >
> >     Does the word "going postal" ring a bell?
>
> Tell me how a law the forbids carrying a gun illegally
>
> will stop a deranged person from doing so to go on a murder spree?
>
While you're at it, Mitch, explain how Florida's decreasing crime rates are
the fault of CCW?

-*MORT*-