Please, look at CNN video news in the CNN website called "Bearing Arms".
It talks about gun law in Israel. Israel is one of the most violent places on
earth, and though it is not easy to get a gun. The gun laws are similar to
almost any other civil place in the world: months of paper work, multiple
security clearance, valid reasons to get one, background checks and so on. The
results: about 100 homicides in a year in a population of 7 millions, in
contrast in Houston in the same time period the homicides were about 200 in a
town with a population that 30 % the population of Israel. That is just one of
the city in USA.
You can reproduce such calculations everywhere in the industrialized world
and find out over and over and over the same results.
Guns kill people and the presence of more guns kills even more people.
It is a fact, no discussion about.
TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Prohibition attempts are a study in human creativity and
> flexibility.
>
> Blocking imported weed created an outdoor growing industry
> in the states. Going after outdoor weed crops created the
> still booming indoor growing primo bud industry. Shut down
> meth labs in the Midwest? No problem, now it is coming over
> the border in tractor trailers from both northern and southern
> borders. (purer quality too) Nature just hates a vacuum.
Entrepreneurs hate one even more. I know a couple
of guys in Santa Fe who look forward with *glee*
to America banning the legal sale of guns. They'd
be in business as gunrunners the next day. The only
reason they aren't in that business now is that they
wouldn't be able to compete, pricewise, with the
legitimate gun dealers.
> We used to have certain streets in DC where hookers would
> stand around.
I was nowhere near that neighborhood. I don't care
what they said in News Of The World.
> They put in an ordinance that prevented people from from
> turning right on those streets so it was harder for people
> to cruse by and shop for some tender lov'n STDs. So now we
> have brothels in the suburbs, even in classy neighborhoods.
> It is so much more convenient plus it is easier to hide
> your human slave girls from Eastern Europe in big houses.
> Cuts the pimps overhead and improves the bottom line.
> Eastern Euro slave chicks are really hot if you can
> overlook the haunted look of human despair in their
> eyes.
Interestingly, I hear that a couple of brothels in
Amsterdam tried that, and nobody wanted the women.
Complete washout. And I suspect the reason is that
look of despair you're talking about. Even the
tourists noticed it.
Most of the women in the sex industry (hey! that's
what they call it) in Amsterdam are independents.
Raised Dutch, with few inhibitions about sex, many
of them look at it as a ten-year gig that they can
retire from with enough money so that they never
have to work again for the rest of their lives. And
for many of them, that is exactly how it turns out.
I know a few of them, who now live in Spain in their
own houses and are retired at 33. Go figure.
But there are the hard cases, too. The women who got
into drugs, or who are just *into* being abused. You
get a lot of that in Amsterdam. Heavy S&M scene. And
they have a bit of that look in their eyes, too. Not
to the extent that someone kidnapped from their
country or sold into slavery by their parents would
have, but it's still a sad, world-weary look that I,
for one, would never be able to get past.
> (I recommend meth )
Exactly. Anyone who *could* get past that look would
probably enjoy meth.
> Cops in DC had a money for guns program till they figured
> out the kind of guns people where selling them, the ones
> they never use because they are broken.
Yup. Same thing in New Mexico. They'd find a rusted-
out old Winchester with no collector value and get
100 bucks for it at the police station. They wouldn't
have been able to get 5 at a pawn shop.
> That way they could take the money from the broken
> gun sale an buy a piece that could sling some lead for
> reeeeeeaaaaal.
Sadly, it might be true. When I was young, I lived for a
time in El Paso, Texas and grew up around gun nuts. They
infected me for a while, and I freely admit to having
owned guns at one point in my life. Heck, I even found
a used Ruger 22-caliber rifle at a gun show one day and
bought it just to see if I convert it to full auto as
easily as my friends said I could. It took me less than
two hours, and I had a machine gun. I took it out in the
desert and ripped off a few 50-shot clips then looked
at the boxes of empty ammunition at my feet and at the
receipt for them still in the bag, and I sold the gun
the next day. Neither of the gun sales was ever official
or tracked by any law enforcement agency. I was 17.
It's a big problem. It's not an easily-solved problem.
> While people are busy getting rid of drugs, hookers and
> guns I was wondering if they could also get rid of that
> last five pounds that is keeping me from my 6 pack abs.
> (alright its ten, so shoot me)
Unfortunately, approximately 100 million Americans are
able to do just that.
Ain't it just heartbreaking, the level of FEAR that people
must live with on a daily basis to really *get into* guns?
I know a fellow who is one of the sweetest guys you could
ever meet. You'd like him...he's a musician, and a pretty
good one. Guitars, keyboards, the whole tamale. Got a wife,
couple of kids. Started life as a Divinity student and
almost became a preacher. Owns over 30 guns. He's one of
the ones I mentioned in the previous posts who already
has plans for how he's going to hide the guns when "they"
come looking for them.
Wouldn't it be a trip if someone could invent some kind
of meditation technique that would help people like this
to relax? Something non-denominational and easily-learned
and cheap -- it shouldn't cost more than 35 bucks for a
student and $75 for an adult. Something like that could
even change the world.
More realistic than rent-a-pundits and Woo Woo Rays, eh?
