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- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!clsi!kevin
- From: kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron)
- Subject: Re: ALERT! Anti-gun meeting in NoVA
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.200053.918@clsi.COM>
- Originator: kevin@dubhe
- Sender: usenet@clsi.COM
- Reply-To: kevin@clsi.com
- Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
- References: <62934@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 20:00:53 GMT
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- In article <62934@mimsy.umd.edu>, purtilo@cs.umd.edu (Jim Purtilo) writes:
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- > {guns & cars discussion deleted}
- >
- > ... But in both of these areas, firearms and unsafe drivers, I would
- > hope we could reform the judicial system and elect judges that will really
- > enforce the law....]
- >
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- You really mean enforce punishment (in the hope that adequate punishment will
- deter the offenders).
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- This approach will generally mean 1 (or more) innocent person(s) dead or injured
- for each offender punished. Better to remove the means of offence IMHO.
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- Excessive paranoia on the part of the gun owners will not help.
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- Kev.
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