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To: Alighieri who wrote (699478)	2/16/2013 7:13:10 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578158

>> You stick a few folks in jail and throw away the key and you'll see how many fewer try it. Right. That's what they said about laws against substance abuse. It has worked great -- we have more drug addicts today than ever before. >> If one fewer murder, one less innocent bystander...it's worth it.. I'm sorry, but it isn't. While it is possible it would save one life somewhere, it will cost many more by misdirecting efforts that could be more productively pursued, but won't, because this fake solution will be deemed the end of it. Mass murders for the next 30 years will be written off as impossible to stop, because there were so many guns already on the streets, and even though the program fails, it will be permanently part of the landscape because no politician in his right mind would want to get rid of a law that "saves lives". We've done this stupid shit before. Instead of attacking the problem, we create some more paperwork that does nothing but waste the money that could have been used to do something worthwhile about the problem. Maybe you use that money to require a gun safety course as a precondition to buying guns or ammo. Maybe you beef up the background check program that is already in place. I don't know; but I know that creating unenforceable laws is ALWAYS a stupid idea.