WILL CRIMINALS OBEY A GUN BAN?

The logic of some gun-control advocates is completely insane. The ban
on drugs does not keep them off the street or stop their use. The
"War on Some Drugs" only provides for a lucrative drug market.

The argument that a gun ban will magically persuade bad guys to leave
their weapons of choice at home is equally absurd. The only people
who would even grudgingly abide by a gun ban would be permit-carrying
citizens.

A word of advice to those who think that moving to England will make
their lives safer: Save the cash. Cuba's a lot closer and much
cheaper. I hear it has excellent gun control. For those who wish to
travel to downtown Birmingham to shop, work, swim, etc., Thomas
Jefferson had some excellent advice: "Let your gun, therefore, be the
constant companion of your walks." The 2.1 million Americans who use
firearms for self-defense annually would probably agree.

This is not a perfect world. Rapists, robbers, murderers and the like
will not stop shooting and killing simply because the law says they
can't. Of course, traveling unarmed is every American's right. But
taking a few bullets in hopes that the bad guys of the world will
eventually see the errors of their ways and throw down their arms is
an unhealthy strategy that should never be forced on the rest of us.

James Taylor

Hoover