Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some say US Market for non MLE was Billion rounds in 2010 that generates $250M to help with education, safety and the victims and their families (oh medical bills =, counseling etc) On Dec 15, 2012, at 11:58 AM, jon.streeter wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information