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[Rik Sandberg]

Brad,

Don't want to drag you kicking and  screaming into the political morass, 
but you have certainly made a valid point. When the big, easy money was 
removed from the alcohol business, it came to a screeching halt. Alcohol 
became both easy and legal to obtain, therefore cheap. There was no more 
big money to be made in distributing it, so the criminal elements stopped 
doing it. No big easy profits, what's the point???? Right?

Drugs will go the same way if some of us can stop tripping over our morals 
long enough to make them also easy to get. (IE, legal) The demand will drop 
and the price will go down the tubes, making it not worth a dealers time to 
mess with it. No money to be made, no market.

Want easy gun control??? Allow anyone to own one and make them dirt simple 
to get, CHEAP. The black market will disappear faster than you can say 
speeding bullet.

Don't matter where you are, if you want to know why something is happening, 
follow the money trail. If you want to stop it, make it hard to make money 
by flooding the market. Making it illegal just makes the problem worse. 
Market's still there, but supply is risky and therefore high priced.

Unfortunately, the people in this country who would have the government 
watch our every move at great effort and expense, aren't smart enough to 
figure out this simple little solution to our problems. Even though history 
has shown that it works, time and time again. Too obvious, I guess.

Rik


At 11:52 AM 10/30/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>WooWhooo!  Pickwick Dam State Park Marina called and I
>got a slip space, just in time for Winter.  It does
>have electricity though so I can keep the new Honda
>generator at home except for the extra long trips.
>
>Motor question:  Many of you are going to the Yamaha
>9.9.  Do you feel you need the extra HP or the
>alternator?  According to the website
>www.image-ination.com/sailcalc.html (contains R-22
>data as well) my 4.5 2-cycle should push the boat at
>5.4 knots vs. 6.8 for the Yamaha 9.9.  Doesn't seem
>like much gain for the weight and expense.  Ideas?
>
>I've chosen to stay out of the political discussion
>but can't help but make at least this observation.  We
>experimented with outlawing alcohol and it didn't
>work.  More alcohol was made and consumed during
>prohibition than any other time and much of the
>business was controlled by criminals.  We have laws
>against illicit drug use and distribution and yet they
>are used and sold.  Murder is illegal in every state
>yet it continues by a variety of means.  Laws against
>gun ownership will not eliminate guns, the gun trade
>will only go underground and be controlled by
>criminals (remember, supply and demand). There are
>plenty of gun free countries.  My wife and I keep an
>apartment in Beijing and I do enjoy our time in China
>knowing I won't be shot by private citizens (I keep my
>nose clean around the soldiers) like happens so often
>here in Memphis.
>We don't waste a lot of time talking politics there
>either.  If they are at all engaged we know what party
>they belong to.
>
>Brad Haslett
>"CoraShen"
>
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