Once again music gets the blame

M Holmes fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK
Tue Jan 7 10:44:57 EST 2003


Cpt Blue Skin writes:

> the fools - what wonderful free promotion.   They still haven't learned-
> which is handy for the bands....
>  From the day we are old enough to play with toys we (children) have guns
> placed in our hands.  Toy guns yes.  But to a child - you cant tell me [mr
> politician] that doesn't leave an impact on the childs psyche.
> Then give these kids years of brain damaging vaccinations and sedatives so
> the parents dont have to worry about the kids (all well documented abd
> researched by medical studies) - THEN set them in front of violent tv shows
> from the age of two without the slightest supervision - nah that hasn't had
> an affect on anyone.

I think it's even simpler than that. We had machinegun drivebys by the
end of Prohibition I. There's scant reason to expect the Prohibition II
experiment to have different results. The answer isn't to make
Prohibition III a gun ban, it's to quit Prohibition II before things get
any worse than they already have.

Unless Britain were stupid enough to again ban prostitution and
gambling, there's no possible source of criminal profit high enough to
pay people to risk their lives outside of Prohibition II.

We don't have driveby shootings for alcohol retail rights any more. It
really is that simple.

In the meantime, I expect banning guns to have every bit the success
that banning drugs did. We can therefore look forward to routinely armed
Police, and when that fails, routinely armed citizens.

Welcome to the future.

FoFP



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