[Vision2020] How Many More . . .

[lfalen]

Sory, I did not mean ti imply that you were for gun confiscation.
Roger
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From: Kenneth Marcy kmmos1 at frontier.com
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:59:15 -0700
To: Moscow Vision2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] How Many More . . .

> On 8/17/2012 3:08 PM, lfalen wrote:
> > Ending the drug war would have a far greater effect on gun crime both here and in Mexico than taking guns away from law abiding folks.
> 
> I did not write one single syllable that indicated or implied anything 
> about taking guns away from anyone, whether or not they are law-abiding. 
> What I wrote was about establishing a restricted-use record of ownership 
> that 1) would provide financial information for purposes of gain-or-loss 
> determination for income tax purposes, and which, with appropriate 
> administrative law provisions in place, 2) would transfer firearm 
> ownership information to law enforcement individuals for their use in 
> the course of their legitimate law enforcement business.
> 
> The sky is not falling with respect to firearm confiscation, and neither 
> you nor anyone else should be writing to indicate that is what I 
> intended or implied.
> 
> Ending the drug war may have some marginal effect on gun activities, but 
> likely would not eliminate them. The set of actions that likely would 
> have a significant effect on drugs-related gun crimes would be for 
> federal and state and local governments to cooperate to legalize, tax, 
> and make available to adults those products, or remediating substitutes 
> for those products, from which the criminal drug gangs make their 
> profits. The effect of these governmental actions would be to remove 
> high levels of profitability for the drugs business from the gangs. When 
> drugs are insufficiently profitable to allow drug gang business success 
> from trafficking in them, old-fashioned marginal microeconomics will 
> indicate to the gangs it is time for them to cease business.
> 
> 
> Ken
> 
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