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- From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
- Subject: Re: More Gun Control
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:11:28 GMT
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- > geoffm@netcom.com (Geoff Miller) writes:
- >
- >>Certainly those reasons are true, but there not the only reasons.
- > ^^^^^
- > (sp)
- >
-
- ObEastwood: nag, nag, nag
-
- Peeve: spotting the mistake right after I'd sent the article.
-
- OK - I'm not talking about crack at $5. A very excellent book, "Blood Lust",
- with tasteless and gory details of local serial murderer Dayton Leroy Rogers,
- talks about the lives of hookers that Dayton met, many of them who had
- $85/day cocaine habits. I'm *not* saying prostitution to support their drug
- addiction is a crime, but I *am* saying that other people who have such an
- addiction to an expensive drug *do* resort to armed robbery and assault.
-
- The issue I'm bringing out isn't whether crime is fun or whether it pays, it's
- that a growing number of people are addicted to a drug to such a degree that
- they will commit armed robbery or assault regardless of gun-control or any
- other laws.
-
- -Dave
-