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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (4590)	11/3/2000 4:33:54 PM
From: Enam Luf	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10042

I don't understand the resistance to this... How does requiring a license inhibit legal users to get guns? Is it simply the hassle? What's the big deal? >>Al Gore thinks you need a license to have a hand gun....talk about taking away rights. Do you really think he thinks that will prevent criminals from committing crime?

To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (4590)	11/3/2000 4:36:44 PM
From: Enam Luf	Respond to of 10042

Morality is defined by society, not by God. Unborne children are not members of our society. It is distasteful, but true.

To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (4590)	11/3/2000 4:56:19 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 10042

Study links abortion to crime rates -- Dropping crime rates in the 1990s may be a result of rising abortion rates in the 1970s, according to an unpublished study by researchers at Stanford Law School and the University of Chicago. The Washington Post reported that the study found a correlation between crime and abortion, even after unemployment rates, changes in prison sentences, and other factors were taken into consideration. Crime rates began to drop after 1991, including crime rates for people under 25, the age cohort born after women were granted the legal right to abortion. The study contends that the increased abortions in the 1970s are responsible for half the drop in murders, other violent crimes and property crimes, since many unwanted, economically deprived children who would have been reaching their peak crime years in the early 1990s were never born. The study also found that the five states that legalized abortion before the 1973 Roe v. Wade case experienced an earlier drop in crime than other states, according to the Washington Post. The authors hypothesize that crime will continue to ebb for about two more decades because of the continuing impact of legal abortion. ("Theory Ties Abortion to Crime Drop," August 10, 1999, The Washington Post; "Legalized Abortion and Crime," June 1999, Stanford Law School, Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper)