Saturday, December 09, 2006

Police Shootings

I think the US should outlaw gun ownership for most people. That stuff about "Right to Bear Arms" is crap; it was written in other times for a totally different environment and wasn't meant to encourage (I guess) an armed populace. There's an article on the Agitator about police shootings in America, and the poster in an associated comment says: "The solution seems simple; stop invading people's homes for non-violent offences". I disagree. Surely the answer is to get rid of the guns in homes and make it much more difficult to get hold of them. The number of mistaken shootings would decrease in proportion to the perception of the police that they are likely to be met by a gun-toting maniac every time they break into a house.

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