I went to check out this article and vote in the CNN poll:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9905/27/gun.law.enforcement/
The article is about "More gun laws, or enforce the ones we have?".
The NRA, and some people that have been victims of gun crimes, testified that if the gov't would enforce the laws, the criminals that attacked them etc would not have been free to do so.
I will let you read the article, but in it, it states that in the Clinton era, gun crime prosecutions have dropped %40 even with all the new laws. Only a handful, and I mean a handful of people have been prosecuted in the entire nation in last year.
Janet Reno counters this by saying this:
"The combined number of state and federal weapons offenders sentenced to imprisonment is up almost 25 percent since 1992," Attorney General Janet Reno said recently. "This is during a period that the number of violent crimes committed with firearms dropped 27 percent."
Ah....okay, so now she takes the opposite side of the issue to defend herself. Now, she is touting that: gun crimes have dropped dramatically, like %27, in the last few years.
So, which is it: do we have a "gun problem" or not!?
If gun crimes are dropping so fast, as the Clintons are using for their defense here, then why are they pushing through gun laws and claiming that "we have to do something about gun violence".
I hope that the masses see this hypocrisy and I hope that they continue to use defensies like this as the NRA goes on the offensive.
Ps-
The poll asks "are gun makers liable..."
There are a whopping 83,000 votes! And %86 say "No, gun manufactureres are not liable"
[This message has been edited by thaddeus (edited May 27, 1999).]
http://www.cnn.com/US/9905/27/gun.law.enforcement/
The article is about "More gun laws, or enforce the ones we have?".
The NRA, and some people that have been victims of gun crimes, testified that if the gov't would enforce the laws, the criminals that attacked them etc would not have been free to do so.
I will let you read the article, but in it, it states that in the Clinton era, gun crime prosecutions have dropped %40 even with all the new laws. Only a handful, and I mean a handful of people have been prosecuted in the entire nation in last year.
Janet Reno counters this by saying this:
"The combined number of state and federal weapons offenders sentenced to imprisonment is up almost 25 percent since 1992," Attorney General Janet Reno said recently. "This is during a period that the number of violent crimes committed with firearms dropped 27 percent."
Ah....okay, so now she takes the opposite side of the issue to defend herself. Now, she is touting that: gun crimes have dropped dramatically, like %27, in the last few years.
So, which is it: do we have a "gun problem" or not!?
If gun crimes are dropping so fast, as the Clintons are using for their defense here, then why are they pushing through gun laws and claiming that "we have to do something about gun violence".
I hope that the masses see this hypocrisy and I hope that they continue to use defensies like this as the NRA goes on the offensive.
Ps-
The poll asks "are gun makers liable..."
There are a whopping 83,000 votes! And %86 say "No, gun manufactureres are not liable"
[This message has been edited by thaddeus (edited May 27, 1999).]