From: jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras)
Subject: Re: Ban All Firearms !
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In article <1993Apr14.183025.29688@sco.com> allanh@sco.COM (Allan J. Heim)  
writes:
> 
> papresco@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod):
> 
>    >Drugs are banned, please tell me when this supply will dry up?
> 
>    Drugs are easier to manufacture, easier to smuggle, easier to hide.
>    No comparison.
> 
> Then let's use another example--alcoholic beverages.  Bottles of whiskey
> are larger, heavier, and more fragile than bags of drugs.  Barrels and
> kegs are larger and heavier still, and are difficult to manipulate.
> Yet, a lot of people managed to get very rich off of the smuggling of
> booze into this country during the years of Prohibition.  There was a
> demand, so an entire industry formed to supply it.

I beleive this was the source of the Kennedy clan's money.
> 
> So unless there's something I'm missing, I think your argument that guns
> won't be smuggled because theyr'e more difficult to manufacture, smuggle
> and hide won't wash.  If enough people want something, somebody will try
> to supply it.
> -- 
> Allan J. Heim   allanh@sco.COM   ...!uunet!sco!allanh   +1 408 427 7813
Jim
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