I responded to the great and honorable Charlie Rangel on his Facebook (I harrass him all the time) concerning his call for gun control. For those of you who don't know, Charlie represents Harlem.
You'll see my post below. Right below mine is a post from one of his supporters, a naive, bleeding heart liberal. I'm not making this up. Check out the ridiculous frame of mind these people wander around with. Scary. (I've added "*" in her name to protect the stupid.)
Here's the exchange:
Paul Glasco
You REALLY want to stop it? Then hammer those who use guns in the act of performing a crime! Let's hand out harsher penalties. Quit trying to take my guns from me. And convince criminals not to use them, if even through the threat of death penalties.
J***** T*****
Paul what you are discussing is after the violence has happened. We are sick of that. We want preventative measures put into place to prevent gun violence. No more harsher penalty talk, we got enough people in prison already and it hasn't helped. Less Guns, Less Violence. Give Peace a Chance...
Paul Glasco
Penalties deter if they are harsh enough. Persons should fear what happens to then if they commit a crime with a gun. My guess is those people in prison would most likely still be there without a single gun in thsi country. I don't think the guns make them have evil, criminal thoughts. If so, then they would be in an asylum rather than prison.
Penalties are ok. Certainty of apprehension is even more important. One way to increase that certainty is for all of us to be involved. If you think someone is dangerous, then maybe use an online service like iHoldInfo.com. Tell that person that you've stored some info there, in case they do anything. Now they know that if they do anything, they'll get caught. Maybe there are other services like that - the point is that if you use something like that, then they are sure they can be caught - and so that decreases the chance of it happening.
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