Dear friend, Are you suggesting this 18th century constitutional reasoning is tricking you to believe that the US population would stand a chance against the US army if ever...??? Sorry to say but I think you're tragically wrong there. Better look at more recent past (post WW2, or even after the invention of TV, not to mention the internet, to compare the effects of policies on crime. Privately owned guns have done no good against crime in the USA, nor have harsher penalties. What will help are a good social system to improve the position of the poor, equal chances in education for their children and another president because this one would be your dictator if only he had the guts to disobey his father. This may all sound a little hostile, which is not intended. I just hope to make very sure the Americans get to read what's really happening.
B At 15:49 12-1-03 -0500, you wrote: >On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:20:46 -0000, John Sparks wrote: > >> I will have to concede then that in the current USA widespread gun ownership >> is desirable. > >> I grew up in suburban UK and almost no-one had a gun. I never saw anyone >> carrying a gun (other than children's toys) and only knew 2 people who owned >> guns (one an air pistol and one a revolver with no ammunition) Exceptions >> were the military and fairgrounds and the like. 30 years ago in my >> environment people did not get shot, none. No guns = no shootings period. > >> Unfortunately that is no longer true, especially in some areas. But I still >> believe that no guns is a desirable state of affairs. > >Why does there seem to be simply the consentration upon "no guns" as >being the answer to preventing crime ? > >Why not..... >no knives.... no clubs.... no swords.... no weapons of any kind ??? > >Is that not exactly what every dictator through-out history has done ??? >(remove every weapon they could from the hands of the civilians) > >Did removeing weapons from the civilians prevent crime ? > >Or did it simply make it easier for that dictator to >maintain controll over the civilian population ? > > > >-- > Glenn > http://arachne.cz/ > http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ > http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm > http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/ > >
