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- From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (J. Giles)
- Subject: Re: The 2nd amendment- part 3
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.201127.10070@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:11:27 GMT
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- In article <721923838.5@wyrm.rbbs-net.ORG>, Terry.Preston@f207.n914.z8.rbbs-net.ORG (Terry Preston) writes:
- |> [...]
- |> Indeed. I suspect more of this sort of misdirection to reach the public
- |> as the new Congress convenes and begins to consider legislation like the
- |> Brady Bill, a common-sense approach to gun ownership that will help keep
- |> guns out of the hands of criminals. [...]`
-
- What evidence do you have that this will happen? Laws *much stricter*
- than the Brady bill have been passed elsewhere before now and do *NOT*
- keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Have you *any* evidence
- *at all* that this new law will accomplish *anything*? If such
- laws do not accomplish their stated goals, why waste taxpayer money
- considering them in Congress - much less paying to administer them
- if they pass?
-
- --
- J. Giles
-