Saturday, April 28, 2007

Me with my new Savage .223

Friday, April 27, 2007

Gun Control?

What to you think, should the government make more restrictions on the possession of guns and use of guns, or should the gun laws be left alone?
Let's just say that the government made the ownership of handguns illegal. What would happen, and would there be any "hidden costs"? Let's look and hidden costs first. The government would have to enforce the new law which would cost money, that would indirectly raise your taxes. This might be a little reason but it all adds up.
If handguns were taken away do you think that the murders ,gangsters ,and school shooters would really give up their guns? If they are depraved enough to kill innocent victims they of course wouldn't give up their guns.
What should we do? Lets allow organizations like Prison Fellowship and other faith based organizations into our jails and prisons where they are proven to reduce recidivism rates.

  • A 2002 study showed that faith-based prison programs result in a significantly lower rate of re-arrest (recidivism) than vocation-based programs—16 percent versus 36 percent—with a national recidivism rate of nearly 70 percent (Assessing the Impact of Religious Programs and Prison Industry on Recidivism, Texas Journal of Corrections, February 2002).

If we can cut the second time offenders we could SERIOUSLY decrease the rate of violent crime in the USA. Can you believe this?

  • U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt ruled that the InnerChange Freedom Initiative program at Iowa's Newton Correctional Facility violated the constitutional ban on government establishment of religion. (Spiritual prison program ruled unconstitutional, Alan Cooperman, Washington Post Saturday, June 3, 2006)

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