Hmm, let’s register virgins to stop prostitution.

Professor James Fox tells us in a letter to the editor in the Boston Herald (“We’re under the gun, so let’s register it,” Dec. 5) that less than 1 percent of dealers are linked to the majority of guns used in crimes. And if there were only one dealer, would not that single dealer be “linked” to all guns used in crimes?

Would Professor Fox call for the closing of that last gun dealer, which in theory would then stop all criminals from getting ahold of guns?

Would that stop all crimes involving guns, then?

Read the Congressional Record – HOUSE, Vol. 78, page 11,400 of June 13, 1934, where our brilliant congressmen voted to secure the right of lawful Americans to buy machine guns by placing a $200 use tax on the purchase of them.

Lawful Americans had to pay a $200 use tax if they wanted to exercise their right to possess a machine gun under federal law, which is supreme even to the laws of Massachusetts.

So gangsters forever lost the ability of “getting hold of machine guns” because those useful idiots in the Congress put a $200 use tax on those machine guns which only the lawful citizens had to pay.

Professor Fox, can you tell me what documentation supported the “Assault Weapon” ban, ST. 1998, c.180, and if that prior documentation of need shows the ban to be working in stopping criminals from getting a hold of guns in Massachusetts?

Like it is said in Mutual Loan Ins. Co. v. Martell, 222 U.S. 225, laws must be based upon “concrete conditions” of need.

Or in Jacobson, 197 U.S. 11, laws must have scope and effect. Laws are not enacted constitutionally if they perform no function.

To the students of Northeastern: All doubt is removed as to how clueless a person is when his only solution to fighting crime is to register the lawful citizen and hope this will stop all criminal activities.

– Don Schwarz is a resident of Stoughton.