"Dave Bugg" > wrote in message
...
> Juan Anonly wrote:
>> On 2010-04-25 15:39:56 -0700, Omelet said:
>>
>>> Gun ban laws only affect law abiding citizens.
>>
>> Great! Where can I got to be protected by "gun ban" laws?
>
> Great Britain. Japan. A buncha places all around the globe.
>
>>> They do NOT affect criminals who will be armed regardless of laws.
>
>> This assumes that if we had "gun bans", then criminals would have
>> plenty of opportunities to buy guns. But logically they would have as
>> tough a time buying guns as anyone else. They'd have to violate laws
>> just to get them.
>
> Who says that gun-toting mopes 'buy' guns? And yes, the bad-guys do
> violate gun laws. They violate 'gun-free' zones. They illegally shoot
> people.
>
>> The logic that if we make guns illegal that somehow criminals will
>> have them anyway--I've never been able to figure that out. They have
>> to be manufacturered by someone. If those manufacturers are banned
>> from the practise, where the heck would a criminal get a gun? All
>> over the world criminals manage to break countless laws without
>> handguns.
>
> And all over the world, anyone with a basic metal working shop can turn
> out a gun. Guns don't simply disappear from a society because they are
> made illegal. What does happen, though, is that the innocent is no longer
> easily able to defend themselves from an overpowering bad guy. A woman is
> left at the mercy of a rapist with a knife or bat or physical stature.
> --
> Dave

Just think of all the children that wouldn't die at the hands of brothers
and sisters playing with mom/dad's guns.

Ms P