GUNS: Re: Brady Law has not affected homicide rates

From: Joe Dees (joedees@addall.com)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 22:40:14 MDT

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) >Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:17:04 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: GUNS: Re: Brady Law has not affected homicide rates
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>
>
>From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com>
>
>>From gun shows and dealers in states, such as my own (Florida)
>>with more relaxed laws; they are bought in such places and moved
>>to venues with more restrictive laws to make black market money.
>>It's the economics of supply and demand. I. for one, would prefer
>>criminals, the unbalanced and the irresponsible to have to buy
>>their illegal guns from outside of the country, not just out of
>>state (in some states); anything that makes it harder for such
>>people to get their hands on a tool for committing easy and rapid
>>long range mass murder has to be a GOOD THING.
>
>Really! Can you provide a citing for this? Thought not.....
>
>Actually you got your wish, I've seen Chi-com AK47's, the full auto
>version for sale here on the black market, still in the original
>chinese boxes....
>
>But that's not where they get the vast majority, try again.....
>
Lessee; you claim that in-stste restrictions do not decrease the number of criminal acts committed with guns, while stating that out-of-state sources for criminals are negligible, and that few weapons for criminals are flowing in from out of country. I dunno. Brian; maybe they get them from....MARS? The Devil? The Klingons?
>
Waiting with bated breath, rapt attention and great anticipation for the received wisdom to belch forth from the anointed NRA Oracle,
Joe Dees
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>Brian
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