From: [d--i--z] at [ix.netcom.com](Dan Z)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Real life under a gun control regime
Date: 10 Oct 1998 17:24:07 GMT

In <[361 F 619 F A 3 CB 2 C 0 B] at [tseinc.com]> Oracle <[aa 10672] at [tseinc.com]> writes: 
>Dan Day wrote:
>> The following article appeared in last Sunday's Houston
>> Chronicle.  It demonstrates in terrifying detail what it's
>> like to be in a country that considers gun control a
>> Good Thing -- long prison terms for honest mistakes.
>> Do whatever it takes to prevent the same nightmare from
>> becoming the case here.
>> 
>> And you anti-gun folks -- pay attention to the real
>> tragedies that your "just a little law" policies create.
>> 
>> #####
>> Taking guns into Mexico risky / Lengthy prison terms, big
>> fines await some Americans who do
>> By JAMES PINKERTON
>> Staff
>Thanks for the good news.  Too bad the Mexicans have to do our work for
>us.

John may not remember that Mexicans recently marched in the streets of
14 cities, demanding the right to bear arms in self defense against the
bandits and rogue police who so easily and so often prey upon them.

"In Mexico City's War on Crime, Citizens Are Armed and Angry:  Brazen
Brutality Deepens Distrust of Government"
(Julia Preston's article, "The New York Times," Fri 7 Nov 97, pp. A1,
A6)

     Mexico City, a diverse community like the USA, offers a
laboratory to test the hypothesis, that guns should only belong to the
police, and that law-abiding citizens should be disarmed.
    The results are not particularly inspiring.  Far higher and more
obtrusive than the USA's, the crime rate has been increasing by 30% a
year.  The police themselves, often on the take from criminals, are a
substantial part of the problem.  The reported rate for solving
crimes, 3.6%, compares poorly with the US rate of 20%.
    Finally giving up on the police, "urban residents are quietly
arming themselves, mainly by purchasing handguns from the black
market, since procedures for registering weapons legally are
cumbersome."

--Hugo S. Cunningham  

Is this the future you wish for the U.S. John?

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