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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] If this man in your employ has really done the things you've described, why is he not in prison? Trying to run people down, and bashing people's faces in? These ARE crimes where you live, aren't they? Firing him is also recommended, if possible. Just do it anonymously. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] But again, if he's willing to run someone over with a car, which is obviously illegal, what makes you think he's not ALREADY carrying a gun in his vehicle? He obviously doesn't care about the law. Making something against the law doesn't prevent criminals from doing it. It just gives the police one more charge against them in court. "if that law comes along that makes it easier for him to carry legally he will." See, here's my point. Why is it being illegal to carry a weapon making it hard for him to do so in the first place? Are there regular police sweeps of his vehicle? It's all psychological. Law has two main effects. 1) Prevent law-abiding people from doing something, because law-abiding people don't break the law, by definition. 2) Give the police another charge against arrested criminals. I can not say this enough: A criminal is not, repeat, NOT going to care about the law. This is by definition. Therefore, making it harder by law for a law-abiding citizen to carry or obtain or own a weapon is not going to have ANY effect on the criminal. Why is this so hard to understand? Now enforcing EXISTING law more effectively will prevent criminals from breaking it, because they'll be in jail. How to do that is another topic altogether. Let's use the analogy of drugs. It doesn't matter if you outlaw drug use. Some people are going to do it anyway, because they lack a basic respect for the law. Sure, you can make it incredibly hard for people who aren't going to use drugs anyway to use them, but that's not going to affect the drug-users, because they're going through illegal channels in the first place. You shut down those channels to stop the crime. The law-abiding citizens aren't the problem. If they were, laws would fix everything. Yes, you do have a point in that occasionally, a law-abiding citizen will snap and shoot someone. But I have the point that the number of lives SAVED by law-abiding citizens far outweighs that. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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