Fw: Moscow surplus and seized weapons policy

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

----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne H Beebe <whbeebe@turbonet.com>
To: Marc <cram3813@uidaho.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Moscow surplus and seized weapons policy


> Point of fact, WalMart no longer sells hand guns.  They won't even sell BB
> guns or BBs to anyone less than 18.
>
>
> ----- 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
> >
> >
> >
>