But the same approach is used in gun control.
This should be satire, but unfortunately, it's true. Bold italics mine.
From the Free Republic board:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a391f0e0b38c3.htm#1
For you landsmen: http://krant.telegraaf.nl/krant/vandaag/teksten/vp.commentaar.html
Editorial, 13 May 2000, translated from the major Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf:
Didn't Reach Them
There has been a true epidemic of stabbings in Amsterdam this year. April was an especially bad month according to the police.
The police spokesman admitted in the same breath that last year's major campaign to turn in knives and other weapons did not reach the aggressive types as had been envisioned.
Particularly those who pull a knife at the least provocation are the least impressed by any form of protest against street violence.
Unfortunately, this last realization should not be too surprising. Only the most unusually optimistic person would have expected last year that hard core violent perpetrators would embrace the opportunity to surrender their weapons during the amnesty period.
But this realization does not help make the increase in violence in the city of Amsterdam any less ominous.
It is sad that current initiatives such as knife prohibition in several neighborhoods have not had anywhere near the desired effect.
There is only one thing to do: knife prohibition must be extended to the entire city.
It is now up to the politicians to allocate additional funds for maintaining the safety to which every citizen has a right.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
[This message has been edited by Oatka (edited May 14, 2000).]
This should be satire, but unfortunately, it's true. Bold italics mine.
From the Free Republic board:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a391f0e0b38c3.htm#1
For you landsmen: http://krant.telegraaf.nl/krant/vandaag/teksten/vp.commentaar.html
Editorial, 13 May 2000, translated from the major Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf:
Didn't Reach Them
There has been a true epidemic of stabbings in Amsterdam this year. April was an especially bad month according to the police.
The police spokesman admitted in the same breath that last year's major campaign to turn in knives and other weapons did not reach the aggressive types as had been envisioned.
Particularly those who pull a knife at the least provocation are the least impressed by any form of protest against street violence.
Unfortunately, this last realization should not be too surprising. Only the most unusually optimistic person would have expected last year that hard core violent perpetrators would embrace the opportunity to surrender their weapons during the amnesty period.
But this realization does not help make the increase in violence in the city of Amsterdam any less ominous.
It is sad that current initiatives such as knife prohibition in several neighborhoods have not had anywhere near the desired effect.
There is only one thing to do: knife prohibition must be extended to the entire city.
It is now up to the politicians to allocate additional funds for maintaining the safety to which every citizen has a right.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
[This message has been edited by Oatka (edited May 14, 2000).]