Originally posted by: Jerry Ice 33
They really aren't Kevin. Milwaukee police throw up there hands and say they can't keep up with it. I've had it happen to my niece and several people at work just recently. They said the same to each of them. One was right out of a secure parking lot and they didn't even check the cameras.
Who is going to enforce it if we get them passed?
I really doubt that the massive increase in spending that would be necessary to even put a dent in the rate of car thefts--in any major city--would be welcomed, especially by the noble "fiscal conservatives" who always have the purse strings clutched firmly in their grasp.
The cops can't be expected to safeguard your house against bulglary, can they? And since there are far more cars than houses in a city, how can the cops watch each one? Do police departments have the resources to investigate every car theft? And if they somehow did, what would they divert those resources away from?
And tell your friends--there are several ways to deter car theft. I don't have to list them all here. But the idea is to make your car less attractive, and more difficult, to steal. It's easy and inexpensive. And if you install a LoJack unit, the latest ones can be set up to alert you if anyone tries to enter your car. (And as far as its cost goes, you can almost always get an insurance premium break.) Or just buy and install The Club.
But in any event, I was talking about guns, not car thefts, and I wasn't talking about enforcement; I was talking about more severe penalties for existing convictions, and charging illegal gun sellers as accessories to the crimes committed with those guns. THAT would make the guy selling AK47s out of the trunk of his car pause and reflect before he sold one to the whacked-out nimrod who is mumbling "Gonna kill them motherfuckers" over and over.