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- From: ksm@abb-sc.abb-sc.com (Ashley)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Guns & self defense
- Message-ID: <1245@abb-sc.abb-sc.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:01:22 GMT
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- Organization: Kaos Laboratories.
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- >Let's start a conversation about how to cure the ills of society. Once we've
- >cured the psychoses and neuroses that make the rapists and murders, once
- >we've abolished the causes of violent crimes, then the rest will take care
- >of itself. But this continuous bantering about whether a gun is an assault
- >rifle or a hunting rifle and the advantages of one type over another is
- >senseless and futile. Don't ban the guns, ban the uses to which they are put.
- >Greater social consciousness is what's needed, and you can't regulate that
- >with a bunch of laws.
- >
- >>I will pray for you to my chosen diety(ies).
- >
- >Pray for all of us, and include yourself in the list. You're as needy of
- >it as the rest of us.
- >
- >Bb,
- >Corun
-
- Thank you Corun, I couln't have put it better myself! And yes, let's
- drop the gun shop talk and get on with how to prevent the need for them in the
- first place! Here's some questions that I hope spark ideas.
-
- Who robs us? Why do they need our money? How can we prevent them from
- needing to take it from us by force?
-
- Who rapes us? Why? How can we remove their need to rape?
-
- Who murders us? Why do they feel they must do so? How can we make sure
- that they no longer feel this way?
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-
- Working towards a positive solution is always better than participating
- in a battle. Sometimes we must fight. I know this. I have been amazed at the
- multitude of ways that the fight can be avoided or won without violence (see
- previous post on self-defence), but I agree that sometimes we must. Yet there
- must also be a way to address the reason why the conflict is there to begin
- with. Protecting ourselves is up to us. Which is better, a nation of armed
- paranoid people waiting for something to start, or a nation trying to find a
- way to prevent the need/desire to commit crimes? I know where I'd rather live.
-
-
- - Ashley
-
- Allright Mars, we've had enough.
-