Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Here's where everybody, including, be it noted, the much and wrongly villified members of the NRA (which mostly is heard about rather than heard from): this school shooting is a tragedy. I for one cannot bear to think about it in terms of my own children. Where we disagree is in what action to take. Criminals don't pay any attention to the law. Restricting guns, or gun ownership, or taxing ammo will simply create a new market for organized crime. Look at the worldwide war on drugs. The only people directly affected by laws are the law-abiding. Our schools are gun-free zones and thus are magnets for the kind of person bent on shooting defenseless children. How about armed security guards at schools? We have them at the entrances to our children's court and in every courtrooom. Are guns around children such a horrible idea that we should disarm our security guards and bailiffs? Remember the Fort Hood shooting? Clinton had ordered that military personnel on a military installation must be disarmed. Look what a message that sent. Are we outraged and saddened over that tragedy? I am. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "FRANK DERNIE" <frank.dernie at btinternet.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] [Lexica] Gun control Date: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 8:32 am Maybe the only solution is to restrict the availability of ammo. $100 dollar tax on every shell case? That may bypass gun possesion laws, you can have as many guns as you like but only 3 bullets for self defence? The problem is that there are so many guns around no control has a snowballs hope in hell of working, even if the NRA changed its mind. As the saying goes, you have made your bed, now you have to lie in it. It is heartbreaking to think of all those poor bereaved parents. I have no idea how they can cope with such a loss. I just can not imagine how I would have felt if this happened to my children or grandchildren. And I have tried. Devastating. >________________________________ > From: Dennis Kushner <dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Saturday, 15 December 2012, 15:50 >Subject: Re: [Leica] [Lexica] Gun control > >Chris Rock has it nailed: >"if bullets cost $5000 each, there would be no innocent bystanders" > >What we really need is for legislators to write own bills instead >of having lobby's write them & pass them on to congressmen. After all, >most are educated lawyers & should be prosecuted for plagiarism >if introducing legislation created by others. That goes for all legislation. > > > >> >> And the NRA goes down. Along with pharma & all other lobbies. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information