Re: gun control

[Marc <cram3813@uidaho.edu>]

At 02:12 PM 6/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>The real solution here is not gun control, but using gun sales to finance
>education.  A 50% sales tax on all gun sales, private or other wise, used to
>provide for adequate counseling in our schools, would go a long way toward
>prevention of any more Littletons, which is the real driving force behind
>all this.  

Ah, I see.  Guns are the cause of our social ills!  How stupid of me not to
realize this.  This is why we are suddenly having these school shootings.
Guns were not available in our society a few years ago.  And now that,
suddenly, they have flooded the U.S., kids are shooting each other.
Perhaps we should put a large tax on spray paint also.  Don't most gang
members get their start with grafitti?

>We cannot regulate guns 

That stupid old paper on display at the National Archives keeps getting in
the way.

>any more than we have been able to
>regulate drugs.  We should except the fact that ownership is here, put very
>stiff automatic sentencing on any crime in which a gun is visible, 

I agree with this

>and tax
>the hell out of every sale.

Move to Canada.  They already do.

>
>John
>
>John and Laurie Danahy
>jdanahy@turbonet.com
>
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