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To: EBUCK
Stricter gun-control will not reduce crime because crime is not dependant upon guns.

Fine. GUN crime, then. Do you believe that stricter gun control will reduce the number of crimes in which guns are used?

261 posted on 05/14/2002 1:10:51 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
Fine. GUN crime, then. Do you believe that stricter gun control will reduce the number of crimes in which guns are used?

I'll bite. Strict enough gun control would certainly reduce gun crime. If all legal importation and domestic production of guns were stopped tomorrow and the next day all gubment officials started destroying every gun they found gun crime would dwindle quite dramatically even if just due to the lack of guns to use in crimes. It would take a while because there are allready so many guns in country but that result would be inebitable.

Now as to the comparison. We are already better off than a gun ban. Illegals are easier to find/catch than guns. Illegals, by definition, cannot be domestically produced. And illegal importation of live bodies (still alive upon delivery of course) is much harder than that of guns.

EBUCK

262 posted on 05/14/2002 1:29:17 PM PDT by EBUCK
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