Another View: There's only one way to stop gun crime: ban handguns

New Hampshire Union Leader ^ | December 28, 2005 | JENNY PRICE

[Loud Mime]

(a) SHORT TITLE- This Act may be cited as the 'Prevention of Illegal Acts Act'.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Ban on Illegal Acts.

Congress finds that: · Despite the number of laws currently in force today, citizens are still breaking many laws. Making all crimes illegal will prevent them.

[cruiserman]

Of the 12,000 guns used to kill people every year, 160 are used in legitimate self-defense. Guns in the home are used seven times more often for murder than for self-defense.

Not according to studies I've seen.

[rhombus]

No problem. I'm sure everyone will just obey the law and all the big bad guns will just disappear. Poof! Likewise we should have a nuclear freeze and just give up all nukes - that way Iran won't need to make any nukes and neither will Korea and all the bombs and missiles will disappear. Poof! Whoops there goes DC. Now shut the hell up and get under that Burkah Jenny Price. In the new gun-free world women like you will be stoned to death.

[wideawake]

Yea, but were the Nazi's liberal?

If you mean: were the German National Socialists a left-wing movement? then the answer is yes, of course they were.

[jsmith48]

The Nazis were national Socialists, as far left as it gets.

Read Hayak's "Road to Serfdom".

[elbucko]

Who else would want to confiscate guns?

Drugies and drug dealers.

[RockinRight]

THAT was a mental image I did NOT need.

[Erik Latranyi]

Any person who seriously thinks banning the sale and posession of firearms will do any good needs to be institutionalized.

Every country that has banned firearms has witnesses an increase in violence.

Why?

Because, like drugs, guns can be smuggled easily.

[Brilliant]

Well, we could ban narcotics, and that would stop narcotics violations.

[DTogo]

Japan has very strict gun laws, yet murders still occur by other means.

[R. Scott]

“…most murderers own their handguns legally and know how to use them safely.”
Sure would like to see the data on that one.

“Of the 12,000 guns used to kill people every year, 160 are used in legitimate self-defense. Guns in the home are used seven times more often for murder than for self-defense.”
And this one!

“But let's stop arming the populace in the meantime…”
And to hell with the US Constitution that also gives her the right to write this crap.

Where’s the BARF alert? In its defense, it does illustrate the mindset of the left.
NRA member #145480265

[yer gonna put yer eye out]

"Would it have been any consolation if her sister was killed with a baseball bat? If someone wants to kill another human being, there are many ways to accomplish it."

I had a similar thought.
The problem here is a person has been mentally overwhelmed by the loss of a loved one.
Her inability to see the issue clearly has clouded her judgment.
It's bizarre to blame society instead of the perpetrator.

[cruiserman]

Yea, but were the Nazi's liberal? I don't think those who wish to restrict the ability of the governed to redress the tyranny of those who govern are only liberal.

National Socialists German Workers' Party.

[YouPosting2Me]

LOL

[SuziQ]

I'm sure all those who have had a loved one killed by other than handguns would argue that the murder rate would likely be the same. Folks who want to kill someone are going to do it; if a handgun isn't available, they'll use something else.

[Final Authority]

One isn't required to excerpt the Union Leader, but, since it wasn't a wire story piece but rather an opinion piece by a private citizen, I didn't spend much effort in checking out whether or not it was already posted.

If all you can add is that it was already posted, why bother doing anything, as the people who do post a reply at least are interested in the subject and may have something to add that even you may learn from.

[Spok]

"The problem is that 60 million people in the United States own handguns."
-who don't misuse them,
-who are law abiding,
-who won't give them up willingly,
-who don't want to become crime vitims, and
-who have read the constitution.

[MarkeyD]

It would be interesting to find out the facts for this case. I'm guessing her brother wasn't David Price, as I Googled and didn't find anything.

[Mr. Mojo]

"As someone who has lost a member of my family to gun violence..."

No, she lost a family member because a violent human. This human could've used a variety of different tools to commit this murder -- an automobile, poison, a gun, knives, etc.

"Of the 12,000 guns used to kill people every year, 160 are used in legitimate self-defense."

lol....160? I've personally posted over 160 "legitimate self-defense" articles on FR just in the last 6 months alone. The truth is there are many thousands of cases of law-abiding citizens using firearms in self-defense. .....annually.

[saganite]

Yeah I know what you meant but the phrase "girl her daughter" was just too good to pass up! I'm wondering if you haven't coined a new way of phrasing how children are raised. Take for example "girl her son". Would he be gay? Or the phrase "boy her daughter". Would she be a lesbian?

Food for thought.