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Old 12-13-2008, 05:13 PM   #111
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the discussion should be focused on the use of firarms in crimes that result in deaths.
You can see above that we discussed that the only real way to impact our society to reduce deaths that occur by using guns in crime is to:
1)increase the legislated penalty for such
2)use the penalty ascribed by application by the judge and jury
3)get rid of the "get out of jail free card" for good behavior. Actually enforce and apply the punishment.

If we are concerned about the number of deaths occuring with a gun during a crime, then why are we not more free with the use of the death penalty?
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