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Councilman's Proposal For Gun In Every Home Shot Down

inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
edited December 2006 in A Moving Train
http://news.yahoo.com/s/wtae/20061207/lo_wtae/10483155

Councilman's Proposal For Gun In Every Home Shot Down

54 minutes ago

A council member in Indiana County who wanted a gun in every home to discourage crime took his proposal to the board Wednesday night.

The proposal would have required every homeowner in Cherry Borough to have a gun and ammunition at home, but at Wednesday night's meeting, Council members voted it down in a 6-1 vote.

Only councilman Henry Statkowski supported the proposal.

Statkowski said it would let criminals know "if you want to break into a home in Cherry Tree, you might not like the consequences."

Gun-control advocates argued it would put guns into the hands of criminals and increase gun violence.
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  • Uncle LeoUncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    That's comical.

    At least people who vilote the law cannot possibly shoot at the cops when they come to arrest them.
    I cannot come up with a new sig till I get this egg off my face.
  • onelongsongonelongsong Posts: 3,517
    inmytree wrote:
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/wtae/20061207/lo_wtae/10483155

    Councilman's Proposal For Gun In Every Home Shot Down

    54 minutes ago

    A council member in Indiana County who wanted a gun in every home to discourage crime took his proposal to the board Wednesday night.

    The proposal would have required every homeowner in Cherry Borough to have a gun and ammunition at home, but at Wednesday night's meeting, Council members voted it down in a 6-1 vote.

    Only councilman Henry Statkowski supported the proposal.

    Statkowski said it would let criminals know "if you want to break into a home in Cherry Tree, you might not like the consequences."

    Gun-control advocates argued it would put guns into the hands of criminals and increase gun violence.

    being an unenforcable law; it wouldn't pass the test. but when you look at the states that adopted conceiled weapon permits; the crime rate dropped dramatically. in arizona; somewhere between 90,000 and 100,000 residents are licensed to carry a conceiled weapon. i was told to get one as a crime deterrant even if i don't carry. the criminals don't know who's armed.
    years back in detroit there was a rash of rapes. they all but stopped when the police offered a firearms class for women.
    an armed society is a polite society. i forget who said that but it still applies.
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    the dumbest thing I ever heard
  • darkcrowdarkcrow Posts: 1,102
    onelongsong wrote:
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    an armed society is a polite society. i forget who said that but it still applies.

    we british are not armed (on the whole) and we are considered very polite..
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  • onelongsongonelongsong Posts: 3,517
    darkcrow wrote:
    we british are not armed (on the whole) and we are considered very polite..

    agreed mate. and i thank you for adding "on the whole" into that. gun crimes still exist there.
  • Vedderlution_BabyVedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    I wonder how people talk when their head is completely up their ass.
  • jeffbrjeffbr Posts: 7,177
    Just as I wouldn't condone the gov't requiring that citizens give up their guns, I also don't condone a gov't requirement to own and possess a firearm.
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • floyd1975floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    jeffbr wrote:
    Just as I wouldn't condone the gov't requiring that citizens give up their guns, I also don't condone a gov't requirement to own and possess a firearm.

    My thoughts exactly...
  • onelongsongonelongsong Posts: 3,517
    jeffbr wrote:
    Just as I wouldn't condone the gov't requiring that citizens give up their guns, I also don't condone a gov't requirement to own and possess a firearm.

    switzerland is the only government that requires gun ownership. as far as i know.
  • onelongsongonelongsong Posts: 3,517
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    I wonder how people talk when their head is completely up their ass.

    why don't you tell us why?
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    about 7 years ago i wrote a satirical piece in the vein of jonathan swift about a measure like this. i thought it seemed utterly ridiculous and something nobody would ever seriously consider. im a bit frightened to find i was wrong abotu that.
  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    soulsinging wrote:
    about 7 years ago i wrote a satirical piece in the vein of jonathan swift about a measure like this. i thought it seemed utterly ridiculous and something nobody would ever seriously consider. im a bit frightened to find i was wrong abotu that.
    Satire is getting harder and harder to do.
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  • floyd1975floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    soulsinging wrote:
    about 7 years ago i wrote a satirical piece in the vein of jonathan swift about a measure like this. i thought it seemed utterly ridiculous and something nobody would ever seriously consider. im a bit frightened to find i was wrong abotu that.

    I feel the same way about a whole lot of legislation that is considered and passed.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    zstillings wrote:
    I feel the same way about a whole lot of legislation that is considered and passed.

    ill agree with that. i think my faith in america was truly broken the day they created freedom fries. it was something so absurd i wanted to cry that it was really happening. it could have come from a dave barry column... but nope, that's congress doing it.
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