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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Right: [QB] "Those damn liberals -- passing new gun control laws they don't enforce!" That's what I hear quite a bit from my right-wing friends whenever the topics of guns comes up. Sometimes I wonder how educated they truly are on the subject. They're all in favor of George W. Bush -- they think he'll actually enforce existing laws. Hey, maybe he'll start. But he sure didn't in Texas. With Bush as governor, Texas law enforcement agencies were aware of hundreds of convicted felons who may have illegally possessed firearms, but did nothing about it. Federal law prohibits convicted felons from possessing guns. Yet hundreds of convicted felons have shown up -- gun in hand -- to attend the required (Texas) training course. More than 600 applicants for a concealed weapons permit have been turned down because they were convicted felons. As of December 1999, not one of them had been prosecuted. Looks like the ones opposed to gun control laws are the conservatives. Maybe if they'd start enforcing the laws on the books, gun crimes would go down. Of course, if they did that, *gasp* the NRA might not be able to scare quite as many people. It's also interesting to note that under the concealed weapon's law in Texas, 3,051 Texans with the permits were arrested (27 on charges of attempted murder and manslaughter) Felony and misdemenor charges againt those w/ concealed permits increased 54% from the first year to the second year of the program. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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