Re: Shooting the taggers
he grafitti, or otherwise render it invisible, in a quick and timely manner. (The idea is that the grafitti is offensive to the sensibilities of others, or somesuch, and that it encourages rival gangs to counter with
Here in Santa Cruz, graffiti spray-painted on the walls of businesses is a big, and growing, problem. And laws require the businesses to paint over their own grafitti.)
No, the idea is that the taggers do their thing in order to see the results of their work on display. Paint over the results promptly, and there is no point to tagging.
There's a solution for taggers: snipers.
A punishment far out of proportion to the crime. It is a mistake to think that all crimes should be punished by the most violent means possible. Notice that most proponents have never raised children. They need to learn the importance of proportionality. "John ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
At 03:14 PM 8/22/97 PDT, John Smith wrote:
No, the idea is that the taggers do their thing in order to see the results of their work on display. Paint over the results promptly, and there is no point to tagging.
There's a solution for taggers: snipers.
A punishment far out of proportion to the crime.
It is a mistake to think that all crimes should be punished by the most violent means possible. Notice that most proponents have never raised children. They need to learn the importance of proportionality.
"John
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Speaking as a father and as someone who has been followed by gang members on numerous occasions after witnessing a gang assault and providing information to the police, I am in agreement with Tim May. I don't want my child to be corrupted or assaulted by worthless, predatory scum. There would be much less gang crime if private citizens could cane or otherwise deal with gangsters when they caught them in the act, pour encourager les autres, like. Jonathan Wienke What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" is too hard to understand? (From 2nd Amendment, U.S. Constitution) When everyone is armed, criminals fear everyone, not just the police. PGP 2.6.2 RSA Key Fingerprint: 7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928 DSS/D-H Key Fingerprint: 3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC Public keys available at pgpkeys.mit.edu. PGP encrypted e-mail preferred. US/Canadian Windows 95/NT or Mac users: Get Eudora Light + PGP 5.0 for free at http://www.eudora.com/eudoralight/ Get PGP 5.0 for free at http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pgp-form.html Commercial version of PGP 5.0 and related products at http://www.pgp.com Eudora + PGP = Free, Convenient Communication Privacy
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