On Shooting Taggers: Why Conservatives and Liberals Differ

Townhall,com ^ | Augustg 26, 2008 | Dennis Prager

[libstripper]

Liberals are far more inclined to see graffiti as a mere nuisance, or even as an example of the downtrodden trying to have a voice in a civilization that oppresses young people who are usually members of historically oppressed minorities.

To the conservative, graffiti is an assault on civilization; to the liberal, graffiti is the result of civilization's assault on those who paint the graffiti.

[libstripper]

A 1000 fps pellet gun would be very good for this: quiet, leaves a nasty wound, and a lead pellet (at least when fired into a phone book) mostly disintegrates, so it's hard to do a ballistic trace.

[P8riot]

Hate to breake it to ya, but:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068081/posts

[G Larry]

Nice if you are confident that you’re only after taggers, but who wants to go up against potentially armed gang members with a pellet gun?

[driftdiver]

And they wonder why no one wants to live in the inner city

[CholeraJoe]

Pellet rifles are for wimps.

[G.Mason]

Hmmmm ... Having been bombarded with mental graffiti for years by the MSM, and every other leftist with a pen, or computer, is hunting season finally open?

[Spirochete]

In Texas, “criminal mischief during the nighttime” is a justification for deadly force (there are other qualifiers).

[libstripper]

Pellet rifles are for wimps.

Depends on what you're using them for. One of them is great for knocking a squirrel off your roof without damaging the roof, something a 600 Nitro is a bit much for. However, for griz, I'd hazard a guess that a .177 pellet wouldn't do the job.

[Doctor Raoul]

Sell licences and equip the pellet guns with gun cameras like fighter planes.

You have to get 5 seconds of video of them tagging and then it's legal to hit them in the ass.

And provide police as guides and escorts to protect the tagger bagger.

[magslinger]

Use enough gun.

[Soliton]

I have no desire to see a graffiti vandal killed -- my position has always been that only those who cause death deserve death (that is why I oppose the death penalty for any crime except murder). But if enough taggers are wounded, their assault on civilization will decline dramatically. And if one accidentally dies? That would be a tragedy. But here is the bottom line: More innocent people will die if tagging is not stopped than if it is. Graffiti unchecked leads to worse crime.

Shooting graffiti goobers?

[Tribune7]

While the headline is not inaccurate it would have been better if he said “winging taggers” since he really doesn’t want to kill them.

[Huck]

They should get 60 days on a work crew, cleaning up graffitti and picking up trash in their own neighboorhoods, with stripes jumpsuits on and leg irons.

[P8riot]

Use enough gun.

Yeah, a suppressed .308 would give you the opportunity to take a bunch of them out before they knew what hit them.

[Zippo44]

Nah, paintballs adulterated with skunk scent (available in finer sporting goods stores everywhere).

[RJS1950]

No, not skunk scent, use cadaverine. Cadaverine is the organic compound that gives the odor to rotting corpses; nasty stuff.

[magslinger]

The .600 Nitro would allow you to take out several before they knew what was happening. If you could get them to line up.

[nonsporting]

The new .17HMR or .17HM2 would be perfect for tagging taggers. Greater effective range than the 22Mag or 22LR.

[MrB]

And what would the left scream when you put gang bangers in “leg irons”? Consider the ethnicity of those who would be subject to this.

[papertyger]

Ehem...compensating?

;o)