[Noble Wolf]

Point taken,

But you missed the lock em up and throw away the key. Rehabilitation doesn't exist. Criminals or criminally minded folk should be removed from my society and used for "humane" experimentation or some other society benifiting purpose.

Then who will get stabbed.

Also, please note the stabbing perpetrator has still to contend with ARMED police force. Drill one through his head and see who he/she stabbs.

The problem is people keep whining about their "civil" rights - well what about MY right to feel safe in my house, in my suburb, in my city, without the need to have a GPMG under the bed. People who want to shoot firearms as some form of "sport" I can live with, providing that their prepared to have their weapons kept locked away in special facilities.

We don't have a gun mad mentally here in Australia and those few criminals that choose to carry or use firearms know that the penalties for doing so are a lot, lot, LOT worse.(and I strongly believe that these penalties still could be doubled or trippled)

Taking firearms away from people doesn't solve crime - but if you make it nearly impossible to obtain or acquire them(by not having them freely distributed throughout your society) you make the "likelyhood" of a violent offence involving firearms occurring less. In the 1800,s people living in frontier regions of the world "may" have had reason to have firearms; but I thought I was living in the 21st century.

[ 05-03-2002, 09:21 AM: Message edited by: Noble Wolf ]