On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 18:23:26 +0000 (UTC), Doug Miller
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Ed Huntress wrote in
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 13:55:01 +0000 (UTC), Doug Miller
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Ed Huntress wrote in
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If there was [a gun registration system], and if the original
owners were legally responsbible to control their guns (as in
Switzerland, to repeat our example), you'd have a lot fewer
stolen guns.

Oh, come on, Ed, don't be ridiculous. Do you *really* think that
the prospect of losing a valuable possession is insufficient
incentive to secure it properly, that people won't secure their
property properly unless the law requires them to?

g Do you mean like the 20 guns that Gunner supplied to the nation's
criminals? Of were you referring to the other 230,000 that are stolen
each year?

Failure to answer the question noted.

Without surprise.

What question? I thought you were making a joke about Gunner's failure
to secure his guns (there were nine, actually, in his statement; I see
that the 20 referred to another case). It looked like you were asking
tongue-in-cheek.

Now that I know you were serious -- an absurdity in itself -- the
answer is, prima facie, yes. It happens an average of 230,000 times a
year, according to the FBI.

Now do you see why I thought your question was a joke? It was, but you
didn't realize it, apparently.

If you look, you'll find police reports referring to guns stolen from
houses in which the guns were in a "cabinet," or a closet, or
wherever. We know that thieves have several ways to break into a
house. It happens thousands of times each year.

Some of us are a lot more careful and have our guns well secured. But
in millions of cases over the years, law-abiding gun owners haven't.

Thus, we have a vast criminal market of guns.

--
Ed Huntress