[FormerLurker]

There is another cure for this illness - being mugged and injured. Works most every time!

Many times those with this disease will cry out for even MORE gun control, as if it'd do any good. Criminals have guns, and they're more apt to use them in a crime if they think their victim will be disarmed.

[Crowcreek]

Criminals have guns, and they're more apt to use them in a crime if they think their victim will be disarmed.

I saw a great article about the 'Sullivan Law' in the NRA magazine, which attributed the original NYC handgun ban to a city official from the 'canal district(?)', under pressure from the criminals in his area to make it easier for them to mug strangers!

I wish I had saved the article -- it was serious and well-documented. I think the title was " The Sullivan Law" (American Rifleman).

[budwiesest]

A whole lot of NYMBY going on. It's one thing to view violence on tv while taking comfort knowing it's happening in some other country and yet, something else again when imagining it could happen here.

I doubt they could sustain attacks in this country by their Billy-bomb-Ladens as they are seriously out-numbered, and, well, you just don't want to mess with Roy Rodgers.