At 10:56 AM 3/6/01 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>Yes, mr. Bush, how many more innocent lives must be lost before the you
>realize all these deaths are not mere statistics, but real tragedies that
>could have been avoided... :(
Avoided, Jeroen?
Ramesh Ponnuru says it best:
"A 15-year-old has been accused of killing two students and wounding 13
others in yesterday's high-school shootings near San Diego. President
Bush was right to label it "a disgraceful act of cowardice." But can the
calls for more gun control be far behind? When they do arrive, keep in
mind the number and range of California guns laws already on the books
that may have been broken: A ban on minors possessing handguns except
under parental supervision or with written permission; a similar ban on
minors under the age of 16 possessing live ammunition; a ban on
transferring guns to juveniles; a ban on concealing firearms without a
license; a ban on storing loaded guns where children under the age of 16
can access them outside of parental supervision; a ban on carrying guns
on school grounds without the permission of school authorities; plus
laws on registration, training, and waiting periods.
In other words, what happened at Santana High School is a case of gun
control failing."
All your famous laws sure helped those kids an awful lot.
JDG
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"The point of living in a Republic after all, is that we do not live by
majority rule. We live by laws and a variety of isntitutions designed
to check each other." -Andrew Sullivan 01/29/01
