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Guns, guns, guns! Theres always going to be a debate about guns. It's simple really. I know we can't go around analyzing everyone when a person goes and buys a gun. The 7 day waiting period is Perfect! In that time the police dept. should have all the info they would need to qualify or dissqualify a person from having a gun.
The police are too busy arresting people for marijuana possession...
I have a story that is out of Florida so, maybe you could shed a little more light on the story...I am guessing that you live in Florida.
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Why rapists and robbers ran from one Florida town
Over the last five years, the city had become a little Silicon Valley, with computer companies moving in by the droves because there were no corporate taxes in Florida or in Palm City. The city was prospering, and the newly-rich computer millionaires and their employees with stock options were all building big, fancy houses by the river. The money and big houses had attracted the thieves. The city crime rate had been exploding, especially home burglaries and rapes. All the women in the city were scared and up in arms over the crime spree, and wanted something done. Mayor Branden promised to do something about it.
“The real problem is that the women are defenseless. You may not know this, being so new as Mayor, but about five years ago the previous Mayor passed gun laws that made it illegal to have a gun in the house, and illegal to use one against a burglar. He also made it illegal for anyone to carry a concealed gun outside the house. That’s when our troubles started, Mayor.”
Let’s put the risk back. Let’s see what happens when they get shot if they break into a house or bother one of our women. I’m sick to death of all the gun laws in this country, so let’s try a little experiment. I’ll convince the City Council to revoke our gun-control laws. Next, I’ll convince them to pass a new law requiring every man and woman in Palm City to own a handgun or shotgun, and know how to use them safely. I want a pistol and shotgun in every home. I want every woman walking around town with a concealed gun in her purse or under her dress. Let’s see what happens when we change the laws. Let’s see what happens when we give the victims a way to defend themselves.
I also want you to put a series of ads in the Palm City Gazette and Daily Press that announces the new laws, so everyone knows that every Palm City resident will soon be armed. I want you to set up gun safety and training courses on the local firing ranges, so we know that every woman in this town will be dead shot.”
THREE MONTHS LATER:
“Mike, mother-of-god did your plan work! The crime rate has dropped like a rock in Palm City. Burglaries are down 80 percent. Rapes are down 90 percent. I’ve never seen anything like it. It all started about two months ago, Mike. There was a burglary gang that had been hitting most of the houses. Well, about ten of them have been shot, three killed in the last two months. As soon as the burglar alarm goes off, the women took their guns from their purses and started shooting. I’ve interrogated some of the thieves we caught. They’re pretty stupid and don’t read much, so they weren’t aware of the new gun laws. They thought we were still operating under the old laws. You should have seen the shock on their faces. They were mad as hell. They never expected pretty young housewives to be spraying them with semi-automatic fire. They were mad as hell at you.”
More money, more problems. More guns, more problems! Starting to be like Iraq out here in the United States. I love guns myself, but if eveyone starts buying guns everyone will have one then it will be like the wild wild west out here in the states all over again.
They should be. Drug sales are the ONLY reason the gangs exist. Put all
people who use and/or sell illegal drugs in jail and the gang violence problem
will go away. Gangs are the source of most of the shootings in the United
States.
Drug users are unwittingly causing most of the violence and crime in the
nation.
Yep, we've been locking them up since 1914. A lot of good it's been doing us. I have a better idea. Legalize and regulate drugs so gangs no longer make a profit off it. Then our gang problem is solved. This is a topic for another thread, though. In fact, there are a couple recent threads on this forum regarding the subject.
LeavingFlorida05
What's your point, Chloedog? I've never said that people shouldn't be allowed to have guns.
I was asking you if you knew of this town in Florida and if you did could you elaborate.
The point of this story (To everyone on here) is that this town made it mandatory for every citizen to own a gun. The Mayor made training available to all that wanted it. The crime rate fell dramatically in only three months.
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