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While I don't necessarily agree with either side's recent vocalizations, (Mr. Clinton or the NRA Spokesman), I do believe that the problem is not a lack of gun laws. We have more "Gun Laws" now than our forefathers could have ever imagined. The real problem lies not with laws or legislation, but rather with the inadequacies of the justice department and rampant corruption in our police departments. Take a look around, the CIA is a cocaine smuggling joke, the FBI has been looking for the elusive "Eric Rudolph" in the North Carolina mountains for years, they are no closer today then they were the day they started looking for him. What the Federal Agencies call the "War on Drugs" has succeeded only in seizing and reselling for profit, the property of our citizens. This is Not a "War on Drugs" this is a "War on our Citizens" Today we have more cocaine and heroin on our streets then we did twenty years ago, and at a lower price.
The same legislative mentality that brought us the "War on Drugs", when applied to Gun Control, should have every law abiding citizen quaking in our boots. Do we really want more guns on the street and in the hands of criminals over the next twenty years then we already have? Does anybody honestly believe that any law is going to prevent criminals, who already buy their guns on the street, from obtaining their next weapon just as readily and easily on the street as they do now. I can not foresee any armed robber going to a department store, filing for a background check and waiting three days to buy his/her weapon of choice, before they head to the liquor store for explicit purpose of armed robbery. The most probable scenario would be that they obtain their unregistered weapon on the street where they have a lot less chance of it being traced back to them from the seller. This also gives them the added bonus of not having to wait three days before committing their crime. Maybe we should let the CIA look into the matter, that way they would have a lot more firepower to help them get this weeks shipments of cocaine into the country, without having to shoot our citizens with 9mm pistols, they could use the automatic weaponry they is being smuggled in at the same time.
I think a much better answer would be to quit releasing capitol criminals, (murders, rapists, armed robbers), to make more room for all the pot smokers who had their homes, cars and other property seized simply because they caught smoking a joint. But then again, if pot smokers were not in prison, thus deemed "felons" and unable to vote, we might have someone in Congress and the Senate with active brain cells. That would not work because that would make it far to easy to actually do something right, or beneficial to the populace, not just beneficial to congressional & senatorial members.
Sneads Ferry - March 23, 2000
Editorial by: Gerry Noblot
Last Revised: October 14, 2006 05:07 PM.
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