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- From: c1741@moncol.monmouth.edu (MICHAEL CARSON)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: the US elections...
- Message-ID: <7793@monmouth.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:58:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.083707.29169@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >altheimm@nextnet.csus.edu (Murray Altheim) writes:
- >
- >: argument. The incidents of both automatic and semi-automatic weapons
- >: abuses (such as the schoolyard killing in Stockton, California a few
- >: years ago, the Texas restaurant attack, or the recent schoolyard incident
- >: in Sacramento, just to name a few I'm familiar with) involve non-hunting
- >: style weapons, ie., automatic or semi-automatic weapons designed for
- >: military use.
-
- If you are so terribly familiar with them, which one involved automatic
- weapons?
- At least in the Texas incident, the death toll would have been MUCH
- lower if there had been ONE armed, trained and responsible citizen in there.
-
- >: I still fail to see ANY argument justifying public access
- >: to these weapons.
-
- I believe I just made an argument for the possession of at least some
- weapons. Full-auto weapons are justifiable for the same reason as say a TV.
- Both are non-essentials, that cause enjoyment in the owner. Granted the
- full-auto weapon is more dangerous, but I am unaware of ANY crimes committed
- using legal full-auto weapons. ILLEGAL and SEMI-auto, sure. But most of the
- crimes commited with them would be possible, and not significantly more
- difficult with common home chemicals.
-
- >: And this ignores the issue that many semi-automatics
- >: can be easily modified to become automatics; in fact, there are small
- >: pamphlets on how to do so.
-
- The ease of conversion is debateable. The POSSIBILITY of
- conversion is a case of corporate irresponsibility. Most semi-auto versions
- of full-auto weapons simply have a part or two removed, to lock them
- into semi-auto firing, These parts, unless other measures are taken,
- can be replaced. Colt is one manufacturer who had this problem, with their
- M-16/AR-15 line. Recently, they started selling their Sporter model. It is
- an M-16, with the requisite parts removed, and a chunk of solid metal
- built into to ensure that the parts cannot be replaced.
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