9/13/2004 10:23:53 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

John Kerry feels that if we just criminalize conduct, terrorists will go away. Perhaps if we had had a law making it illegal to fly planes into buildings, 9/11 wouldn't have happened. Those anti-hijacking laws just weren't enough.

The utter silliness of the gun ban philosophy knows no bounds. I'm not sure which is funnier - the thought that criminalizing behavior of religious zealots is effective, or the thought of John Kerry "hunting all his life"...

|||109508939380064573|||Law Abiding Terrorists9/13/2004 11:23:16 AM|||Kelly|||True, criminalizing behavior doesn't keep people from doing wrong, but surely you can't base the laws on what some people will do?! If only laws which will always be followed are allowed, we would have to repeal them all. The reason for a legal code is, of course, partially to keep people from doing evil, but more -- it's to provide something to fall back on when the inevitable evil happens.9/13/2004 11:40:48 AM|||Nathan Moore|||Deterrence is certainly a characteristic of criminal law - no doubt about that. I just don't think criminalizing gun ownership, which is quite ineffective as a rule, or terrorist activity, has much of a deterrent effect - punitive on the latter, pointless on the former. Kerry's belief that the Brady ban, or any law, for that matter, will have any effect on Islamist terrorist activity is naive.

Thanks for the comment.

Nathan