Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 02:54:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Message-ID: <200003290254.TAA27463@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000326133218.A44329@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Mar 26, 2000 01:32:18 PM
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> > Criminals would be less likely to commit violent crimes if they expected > > most people to be armed and trained. > > Except that having most people carrying arms, you're raising the bar for > criminals because those who really want to commit crimes will be expecting to > be met with arms and will behave with that in mind. > > They won't hesit to fire first and you end up with more people shot. That's > not a solution. This incorrectly presupposes that criminals commit crimes because they want to, not because it's easier than the alternative. This is actually the kind of thinking that has led to differential penalties for crimes committed by minors, with the net result being things like adult drug dealer recruitment of minors, since adults wanted too much of a cut, due to their increased risk. Most criminals are not stupid, merely lazy. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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