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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (692383)	1/11/2013 5:40:47 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 1575621

Good post from golfer: Let’s go back in history for a moment. While everyday life in America compared to the rest of the world is pretty darn easy and relatively safe, the reality is things can change overnight, regardless of whether you live in a decent neighborhood. Take for example the Los Angeles riots in 1992, when business owners were forced to defend their property from angry mobs causing severe chaos: $1 billion in property damage, 50 dead, 4,000 injured, 3,000 fires set and 1,100 buildings damaged. In this case, a handheld pistol was in no way sufficient, but semi-automatic rifles were. Business owners in LA’s Koreatown knew what was coming their way, so they armed themselves with shotguns and semi-automatic rifles in order to defend their property. They stood on their rooftops as they watched black smoke pour down the street. The cops weren't there to help them. “One of our security guards was killed,” Kee Whan Ha told NPR in April 2012, 20 years after the riots took place. "I didn't see any police patrol car whatsoever. It's a wide open area. It was like the Wild West in the old days, there was nothing there, we were the only ones left." Business owner Richard Rhee felt the same way and told the Los Angeles Times, "Burn this down after 33 years?... They don't know how hard I've worked. This is my market and I'm going to protect it." “Assault weapons” saved Koreatown and it’s fair to say the people holding them saved the lives of many that day. Then of course, there was the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. New Orleans became a place of complete anarchy in a matter of hours. In addition to property owners being forced to stave off mobs of people roaming for food, water and shelter to survive as the government failed to provide emergency services, they had to protect themselves against dangerous looters. But not only were New Orleans residents forced to defend themselves against immediate threats to their person and property, residents also had to protect themselves from the government.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (692383)	1/11/2013 6:12:13 PM
From: d[-_-]b	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1575621

But it will help law enforcement That's what passed for common sense in Canada as well - but after years of building the database no crimes were ever solved using the database. NRA types always say that we need to do a better job enforcing the law. So let's do it. Yes - but it's not an existing law to enforce. How does this database save one life of the 500 lost in say Chicago where the database would do no good since guns are illegal to own already? A database of this type would only lead you to the last legal owner, not the criminal who committed the crime since legal owners are the least likely to commit crimes in the first place and there are no/few legal owners in Chicago. You're being duped into just "doing something" - regardless of effect or cost.