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- From: walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh)
- Newsgroups: ba.politics,ca.politics
- Subject: Re: Carjackers/Citizens/Life/Guns/Bernhard Goetz
- Message-ID: <13700@optilink.COM>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:57:28 GMT
- References: <1gvsreINNiv7@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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- From article <1gvsreINNiv7@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, by stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU (x4604 (Hauskins)):
- > In article <1992Dec19.120605.3981@netcom.com> phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
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- >>Thre or four "cases" in a week of car owners blowing away attempted
- >>car jackers would most likely make it not very common.
-
- > Yes materialism to the ultimate. Just blow em away jack, that it make
- > stop. Oh course, let's look at punishment by death, that has sure
- > cut down on murders, hasn't it?? :->
-
- A poor analogy. Most murderers know their victims to be
- unarmed, most car jackers have no such knowledge. Most
- murders are crimes of passion, rarely for financial gain.
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- My Un-PC statement of the day is: Gee whiz, if we just
- blew away all of these carjackers, think of all of the
- money that we would save the criminal justice system,
- the insurance companies, etc...
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