Reply #38: Since you sing this song often enough. [View All]

Is it your contention that criminals would be unable to commit crimes without guns? Is it your contention that criminals would be unable to obtain guns from other sources? Is it your contention that if handguns were banned that criminals wouldn't saw off shotguns?

Please explain how any of your proposals would lessen criminal behavior?

The IRA, you remember those guys? Just to let the Crown know they could, they fired some unfuzed mortar rounds onto Heathrow airport in the 80's. Now, YOU tell me, where in ordinary trade do you buy an 82 millimeter mortar? Bader-Meinhof managed to attack Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen, USAREUR commander, as he and his wife were being driven through the outskirts of Heidelberg with an RPG-7.

One of the documented unintended consequences of the handgun ban in the UK is an increased use of military grade weapons smuggled in from former East bloc countries. As the source of civilian arms dried up,(that is, made more rare and expensive to apply YOUR model of control) the UK's career crooks replaced revolvers with submachine guns. The penalty was no different, so 'in for a penny, in for a pound.'

If your intent is "gun control" simply because you hate guns just say so. If you think it will make one iota of difference to a criminal, you are only deluding yourself.