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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: More Gun Control
- Message-ID: <1k7m81$igt@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 04:08:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.195252.11505@igor.tamri.com> <1993Jan26.141747.18945@dg-rtp.dg.com> <C1Jnxu.1Kv@vcd.hp.com>
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- In article <C1Jnxu.1Kv@vcd.hp.com> dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe) writes:
- >
- >Gun control laws deflect attention
- >away from the real issue which is the growing number of people who choose
- >to commit violent crimes (with a gun, knife, bare hands, or whatever). And I
- >think the reasons for that are drugs, broken families, and a justice/
- >rehabilitation system that just doesn't work.
-
- Peeve: people who think people commit crime because of "drugs and broken
- families."
-
- I will not count myself among the especially worldly, but I
- have known enough criminals dilettante or professional to know
- that there are two reasons why people commit crimes:
-
- (1) because it's fun.
- and (2) because it pays.
-
- And nine out of ten times it will be (1).
-
- Few Europeans realize this, which is why there's so little
- crime in Europe. Even the British lower class has largely
- forgotten that crime can be fun, and now limit their sport
- to raves and shaven heads. It's sad.
-
- Perhaps they would all get better if they stopped putting
- rubber bands round their balls.
-
- c
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