We asked four leading crooks for their opinion on gun control

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We asked four leading crooks for their opinion on gun control.

"You are not for banning guns in the United States. You don't want to ban them — That makes it easier for us to get them."

"To deny the general public the right to bear arms is in fact making them more vulnerable to other elements of society which maintain access to arms at their own will because they know where to go and get them regardless of whether there are laws against them or not."

"I never had a hard time getting a gun. I could get out of here today and get one if I really wanted one. You can't keep a gun out of my hands if I really want one."

"I think the crime rate would remain stable because the criminal would still get firearms — just like prohibition."

Some people think gun control is the solution to crime. Take away the guns, they say, and the criminal is disarmed.
Sound reasonable? There are a few problems . . . as the "gentlemen" to the left are quick to point out.
The criminal will always find a way to get a gun. So who is really disarmed by gun control: The criminal? Or people like you, your neighbor, and the shopkeeper down the block?
The fact is that gun controls just don't work. We already have over 20,000 federal, state and local gun control laws in the U.S. . . . and still the crime rate soars.
Is the gun really the problem? Or is it the criminal? Less than one thousandth of one percent of the handguns in this country will be used to commit murder in 1977. But almost two-thirds of the firearms violators released from prison this year will be rearrested within the next four years.
The Second Amendment Foundation is a tax-exempt, publicly supported foundation dedicated to the idea that the blame for firearms misuse must be placed squarely upon the shoulders of the criminals and lenient judges; not the law abiding American citizen.
Swift and sure punishment is the way to fight crime; not more futile attempts at gun control that only prevent the law abiding from defending themselves.
Isn't it time we got serious about crime control, instead of gun control? Think about it.

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*Responses excerpted from actual interviews conducted by Sen. H.L. Richardson with inmates of Folsom and San Quentin Prisons.

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