XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.tech, alt.autos.honda   
   From: Trueno@AE86.gts   
      
   On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:59:29 -0500, Say What? wrote:   
      
   > Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:   
   >> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:44:45 -0500, Unquestionably Confused wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> If these guys have guns, they're even dumber than I thought...   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>> Considering the low incidence of Mensa members, National Merit   
   >>> Scholars, and successful, moderately bright folks who earn enough money   
   >>> to buy what they desire rather than steal it from parked cars, I would   
   >>> hold that thought if I were you!   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> If they have guns for petty larceny, they're toast. We have tough gun   
   >> laws here, and they'll go up a long time.   
   >   
   > I don't know where "here" is for you but we have rather stringent gun laws   
   > in Illinois (even outside Chicago) and they are still dumb.   
      
   Mass.   
      
   >>   
   >> Hope the few hundred dollars they boost is worth the time. They've   
   >> already busted into the next door neighbor of a State Cop...he only   
   >> parks his cruiser outside his house 3-4 times a week...   
   >   
   > Had one moron break into a house about 3 miles from me out in the country.   
   >  Car sitting on the driveway and he still broke in during broad daylight.   
   > Fought with the owner who, for some reason, didn't shoot him.   
   >   Oh, did I mention the car in the driveway was a fully marked sheriff's   
   > department patrol car?   
      
      
   Definitely sounds like a future candidate for the Darwin Award...   
      
      
   >   
   >   
   >> Hmmm....what were you saying about a dearth of Mensa members...?  ;)   
   >   
   >   
   > You have to remove YOUR mindset when you think about what the criminal   
   > class will do.  They don't think like you and me.  If they did, they most   
   > likely would not be criminals.   
   >   
   > Who kills somebody for a dirty look?  for a pair of new Nike's? for...?   
   >   
   > See my point?   
      
      
   I was thinking about this while listeneing to the BBC this AM. THey were   
   talking about juvenile crime in Brazil.   
      
   THink of this: for every criminal that 'makes it' there are thousands that   
   don't, get sent to jail and get whatever they 'earned' from crime taken   
   away.   
      
   Then they get out and do it all over again. OK, some may live high on the   
   hog for a while, but sooner or later they're going to get caught and get   
   it all taken away again.   
      
   Jail sucks big time. Why not just get a job, never have to look over your   
   shoulder, and let the government take it away in taxes, anyway?   
      
   Wait a minute...I think I begin to see the incentive...   ;)   
      
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