No point passing gun control if you don’t prosecute gun crimes. [More]
It depends upon what the meaning of the term “gun crime” is.
And if someone victimizes someone else, the object can’t be to teach them “that human life has value and that they can’t just go around putting people in danger like that.”
It’s to keep them away from people they can victimize until such time as they’ve proven they can be trusted without a custodian.
[Via bondmen]
But how many of these people actually “victimized someone else,” as opposed to committing a “crime against the state?” “Walking around” with a machine gun is not the same as pointing it at someone or threatening to. Who is “put in danger” by someone simply “walking around” with any gun of any sort? The guy’s entire premise is skewed, no surprise his conclusions are.