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Strict Gun Laws Are About As Effective As Strict Drug Laws.
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Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains
me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states
that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.
-- Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune
Related:
Never brag about your ancestors coming over on the Mayflowe
he immigration laws weren't as strict in those days. -- Lew Leh...
The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Maple City newspaper.
"Twenty years ago Pine City established strict laws designed to limit the number of new buildings that could be constructed in the city....
A Beer doesn't have in-laws.
Natural laws have no pity.
The most important reason for the drug laws in this country is to encourage a healthy distrust for the law.
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation.
That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying -- that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 -- establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime....
You can't just walk into a store and buy a gun. There's all sorts of registration, there are all sorts of state laws.
-- Senator Dan Quayle after criticizing Michael Dukakis for the Massachusetts furlough program....
If a generalist delights to find a law he is ecstatic when he finds a law about laws.
If laws in his eyes are good, laws about laws are delicious and are most praiseworthy objects of search....
Physical laws simply cannot be ignored. Existence cannot be without them.
-- Spock, "Spectre of the Gun," stardate 4385.3....