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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> lfalen <lfalen@turbonet.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1@frontier.com>; Moscow Vision2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, August 17, 2012 7:29 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] How Many More . . .<BR></FONT></DIV><BR><SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>Sory</SPAN>, I did not mean ti imply that you were for gun confiscation.<BR>Roger<BR>-----Original message-----<BR>From: Kenneth Marcy <A href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com"
ymailto="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">kmmos1@frontier.com</A><BR>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:59:15 -0700<BR>To: Moscow Vision2020 <A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] How Many More . . .<BR><BR>> On 8/17/2012 3:08 PM, lfalen wrote:<BR>> > 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.<BR>> <BR>> I did not write one single syllable that indicated or implied anything <BR>> about taking guns away from anyone, whether or not they are law-abiding. <BR>> What I wrote was about establishing a restricted-use record of ownership <BR>> that 1) would provide financial information for purposes of gain-or-loss <BR>> determination for income tax purposes, and which, with appropriate <BR>> administrative law provisions in place, 2) would transfer firearm
<BR>> ownership information to law enforcement individuals for their use in <BR>> the course of their legitimate law enforcement business.<BR>> <BR>> The sky is not falling with respect to firearm confiscation, and neither <BR>> you nor anyone else should be writing to indicate that is what I <BR>> intended or implied.<BR>> <BR>> Ending the drug war may have some marginal effect on gun activities, but <BR>> likely would not eliminate them. The set of actions that likely would <BR>> have a significant effect on drugs-related gun crimes would be for <BR>> federal and state and local governments to cooperate to legalize, tax, <BR>> and make available to adults those products, or <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>remediating</SPAN> substitutes <BR>> for those products, from which the criminal drug gangs make their <BR>> profits. The effect of these governmental actions would be to remove <BR>> high levels of
profitability for the drugs business from the gangs. When <BR>> drugs are insufficiently profitable to allow drug gang business success <BR>> from trafficking in them, old-fashioned marginal microeconomics will <BR>> indicate to the gangs it is time for them to cease business.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Ken<BR>> <BR>> =======================================================<BR>> List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>> serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR>> http://www.fsr.net<BR>> <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>mailto</SPAN>:<A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>> =======================================================<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List
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