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Quote by: Mark The prisons are overcrowded because of non-violent drug offenders, and they are continually releasing violent criminals to make room for more non-violent "criminals". Nice try though. |
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Quote by: brien Better slap your forehead again there Sonart. The prisons are overcrowded with drug convicted criminals, not firearms related criminals. |
Boy, you guys can come up with more "old saws" than a carpenter. Care to back that up, Mark? Brien?
Here, from the
Bureau of Justice Statistics...
Peercentage of sentenced State Inmates
OFFENSE.......1995........2004
Violent .............47%........52%
Property............23%........21%
Drug..................22%........20%
Public-order.........9% .........7%
And state and federal prisons are releasing NON-violent offenders these days, to make room.
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Quote by: brien You can't. Even if guns didn't exist, they would use bombs, as they do in the M.E. You are delusional if you think that by removing all firearms that these type of situations would never happen. |
Says who? They go on shooting sprees specificall BECAUSE they've been raised in a culture that glorifies guns and gun violence. Otherwise, why aren't countries with tough gun laws plagued with rampaging nutjob suicide bombers?
Yet they aren't, are they, brien.
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Quote by: Zeebedee Gun advocates better enjoy their "constitutional right" while they can. I think it's inevitable that the ruling will eventually go against individual gun ownership. |
U.S. v. Miller is
already the
law of the land, Zeeb, backed up by 8 of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal. The bigger danger is that Miller will be overturned by the Bush Court this coming March.
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