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• • 10 Jul 08
  • 11:59 am

  You write: "The conservative answer to America’s crime plague is to put more guns on the streets. If that’s not counterintuitive, I don’t know what is." -- Putting more law-abiding gun-toting citizens on the street is no more counterintuitive than adding more gun-toting cops. The advantage of relying on private citizens is that they can be passive and respond only when threatened -- thereby avoiding the need for racial profiling and the infringement of people's privacy. You write: "Its decision to strike down the 32-year-old law has put America’s cities in jeopardy" -- Nonsense, save for NYC, Chicago, and DC America's …

  Posted to Gun-toters in La-La Land

• • 10 Jul 08
  • 1:23 pm

  Leif Rakur: "The Heller decision is a PR victory for the sale of arms to Americans. It’s a winner for business—in guns shops and mortuaries." Look on the bright side. Radical ecologists claim the earth has too many people anyway.

  Posted to Gun-toters in La-La Land

• • 13 Jul 08
  • 5:33 am

  Ms. Washington primarily wants to lower the rate at which drug dealers and gang members kill one another, without requiring them to stop being drug dealers and gang members. The argument is that these teenagers have no choice but to join gangs due to their inadequate legitimate opportunities. I look at it this way. If I were a teenager dissatisfied with my opportunities, would I choose to join a gang and get shot at in a gang war over drug selling territory, or would I prefer to "borrow" a car and follow some unarmed suburban dad or mom home and take …

  Posted to Gun-toters in La-La Land

• • 02 Sep 08
  • 4:34 am

  headed wrote: "If the modalities of a gun ban are in place a murderer will have no choice but to observe a gun ban because guns will not be available. Secondly a free press is really a sham anyway and what does it have to with a gun ban." How would the "modalities" of a gun ban differ from the modalities of a cocaine, marijuana or heroin ban? If a _real_ gun ban would make guns not available, why are drugs available? Why would you have any greater success with gun ban "modalities"?

  Posted to Gun-toters in La-La Land

• • 02 Sep 08
  • 9:40 am

  Since most of the killing is over the drug trade, instead of banning guns why don't you just ban the drugs? This way the gangsters will have nothing to fight over. A drug ban would be considerably easier, less costly, and ultimately more pleasing than a gun ban.

  Posted to Gun-toters in La-La Land