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d'ohTopic: A Hello to Arms
Idiots...
So, Cleveland has an unusual spate of gun-involved homicides for the year, and (one assumes) a bunch of ne'er-do-wells running amok. So, what to do?
Let's give people gas cards for their handguns...
*Sigh*... I suppose they don't know that the ONLY PEOPLE who would possibly take advantage of this program are the very people who DESERVE to have those guns...
(..."honey, you know that I don't want a gun in this house with our kids around, so why not go turn that beastly thing in for a gas-card? That's a great idea...")
Meanwhile across town, a drugged out junkie sits on his hardwood floor and thinks: "Gee, the price of gas is really high these days, and I WAS plannin' on using my gat here to break into a house and steal some s**t to finance my habit, but my Civic is nearly empty!"...
As a result of this policy, then, both the junkie and family man turn in their weapons, hold hands together and dance under a rainbow sky with lollipop gumdrops raining down from heaven.
(...lollipop gumdrops?)
Anyway: no, that won't happen. More likely is that the now-defenseless family gets their asses handed to them by drugged-out junkie man who, despite his desire for cheap gas, would rather sell that urn with grandpa's ashes in it to a pawnshop to parlay himself a nickel of smack.
(...nickle of smack?)
Voluntary gun turn-in programs ONLY draw in law-abiding citizens: the people who SHOULD have their weapons in tow, while the CRIMINALS who actually use their weapons for no-good aren't gonna give up their livelihood for a gas-card and $50 certificate to the local Applebee's...
...it's more profitable to bring the gun TO the Applebee's, and then leave with the cash register. No need for good manners if no one else can resist 'cause they wanted cheap gas.
Do you want 'politeness', then? An armed society is a polite society.
