Posted by creilmann on 1/25/2011 2:49:00 PM (view original):
Posted by MikeT23 on 1/25/2011 2:29:00 PM (view original):
If 5% of the population is capable of murder, a law isn't going to stop them from doing it. Again, all crimes aren't created equally.
Yep. I've had guns pointed at me before, by convicted criminals, and no one has had the balls to pull the trigger. You know why? Killing someone isn't as simple as point and squeeze.
But, of course, none of us would have to pull the trigger. If murder were legal, the assassin/hitman industry would flourish. Most of congress would be shot by now, making a run for political office akin to suicide. Divorce rates would drop to virtually nil, because why pay her half or let her have custody when you can hire Vinnie to off her? Don't wanna deal with the competing business across the street? That can be fixed. IRS stopping by for an audit? Not any more. There are millions of situations where hiring an assassin would make one's life much easier if murder were legal. It would be open season on homosexuals for the religious right as they, of course, would find permission to do so in the Bible.
The very notion that murder rates would not go up if it were legal is so absurd, that I have to believe that MikeT23 is an alias of Swamphawk22.
This is quite possibly the dumbest argument I've seen. Wouldn't it stand to reason that everyone would hit a "hitman" to kill the "hitman" that's been hired to kill them? If so, wouldn't we eventually only have one remaining "hitman"? Or, quite possibly, only one living human left on earth? I mean, if we're going full-on stupid, let's go all the way.
My argument, way back when, was that laws do not prohibit murderers from committing murder. They either do it as a crime of passion or pre-meditated. Either way, they know it's against the law and they do it anyway. Joe Schmoe on the street isn't walking around saying "Man, if murder wasn't illegal, I'd be killing some people!!!!" That's just some fantasy that soft America has invented to make themselves feel tough.