Re: Moscow surplus and seized weapons policy

[Ry Jones <rjones@moscow.com>]

At 08:27 AM 9/18/99 , Wayne H Beebe wrote:
>Our country does not have a shortage of arms; rather, an oversupply.

That's why the price of guns is coming way down, right? because the supply 
exceeds the demand?

>Fact is, while the MPD may have a reputable dealer, after he/she sells them
>there is no control over them.  There is antidotal evidence that guns siezed
>by the police find themselves again ending up in wrong hands.

Anecdotal evidence suggests anything you like. The UCR from the FBI doesn't 
seem to mention a huge swell in ex-police weapons ending up in the wrong hands.

>With the advent of taking gun manufacturers and suppliers to court for
>liablility to supplying guns, I am suprised the MPD did not take that into
>consideration.

These suits will end up in the dust bin of history, where they belong.

>Once again this past week our nation has witnessed another terrible shooting
>in what would be considered a safe sanctuary in many parts of the world.  We
>need to do everything we can to bring this in control.  The destruction of
>these arms, though a small drop, is a start.

So if churches are "sanctuaries" in other parts of the world, why were so 
many Rwandans who ran to chuches killed there? With machetes? Hmmm? Should 
we ban machetes? Almost all of the deaths in the Rwandan genocide campaign 
came from machetes.
--
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will
look upon the Act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
   -- Gandhi