Upscale wrote:

On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:24:41 -0800, Larry Jaques
What would the criminals do if their guns were taken? Pick up sticks,
bats, knives, swords, steel balls, rocks, and whatever else was handy
at the time they felt like being criminals.

It's replies like the one above that continue to show the flaws in the
gun argument.

While I agree that it is one of the weakest pro-gun arguments, it hardly exposes
flaws in the others.

Guns also kill easily by anyone. Everything else you've
listed above takes some skill, luck and often some muscle to kill on
the spot.

That's why the old Colt was called "The Equalizer".


Why don't you tell me how criminals who don't have guns will do their
drive by killing with knives.

Yeah, it's tough to do a drive-by with a knife.

But this does lead to question: "Why do people do drive byes?" It's because of
illegal drugs. OK, some are done for random reasons or even no reason at all.
But most are business disputes.

Because drug sales are outside the law, they are outside our system of
contracts. Therefore, markets, territories, and agreements must be enforced
with force. It is the same thing that is causing the violence along the Mexican
border, in Columbia, as well as the gang wars in our cities.

While illegal drugs are hard on the users and folks around them, so are most
dependencies, like alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. Outlawing alcohol and
gambling didn't work. Why do we think it works for other dependencies?

-- Doug