Re: Moscow surplus and seized weapons policy

["Wayne H Beebe" <whbeebe@turbonet.com>]

I think Virginia has struck a novel way of handling the misuse of firearms
in the commission of a felony, an automatic 5 years is added to the
sentence.  It seems to be working.

----- Original Message -----
From: Marc <cram3813@uidaho.edu>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 2:27 PM
Subject: RE: Moscow surplus and seized weapons policy


> At 03:57 PM 9/17/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >Dear Visionaries,
> > What would keep the City of Moscow from deciding to destroy surplus and
> >seized weapons under its control as a token of our community's commitment
to
> >reducing handgun and automatic weapons violence?
> >Steve Cooke
> >
> I would think that wanting to have a workable budget would be a priority.
> As a "token of our community's commitment to reducing handgun and
automatic
> weapons violence", it would be token at best.  It would express no
> commitment other than finanical foolishness.  This would be about the same
> as telling Walmart that if they wanted to reduce handgun violence then
they
> should take some weapons off the wall in their store and destroy them.
> After all, those guns have the same chance as surplus ones as being used
in
> crimes.  (Or should I say 'causing crimes' as the term 'handgun violence'
> would suggest.
>
> And, just out of curiosity, exaclty how much "automatic weapons violence"
> do we have?
>
> As a token of our community's commitment to reducing ANY violence, I think
> we should lock up violent people.  I realize this is a somewhat
> old-fashioned approach, but it does seem to work.  To me, this is like
when
> the feds made carjacking a crime.  If the carjackers would get locked up
> for assault, theft of auto and other items in auto, battery, kidnapping
and
> other crimes that they did commit, there would be no reason to waste time
> and money making the collective group of crimes, carjacking, a crime.
>
> Marc
>
>
>