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From: dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame,net.legal
Subject: Re: Re: Personal Defense
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 02:31:24 EST
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In article <1043@utcsri.UUCP> west@utcsri.UUCP (Thomas L. West) writes:
>   How long would it take to see the disappearance of the handgun from 
>criminal's hands if handguns were totally outlawed today.  That it would
>be illegal to import, sell or own a handgun or handgun ammunition.  My guess
>is that the we'd see a dramatic decrease in one year, and none in five.

WISHFUL THINKING! It has been illegal to import, sell, or own marijuana
for a lot longer than 5 years, yet there's always plenty around.  There
is no way to completely seal off the borders of a country that isn't
prohibitively expensive, like, say, an electric fence, which would have
to be several miles high to stop airplanes.

--
	David Canzi

Man: An animal [whose]... chief occupation is the extermination of
other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such
insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
	Ambrose Bierce