home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!mojo.eng.umd.edu!russotto
- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: ALERT! Anti-gun meeting in NoVA
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.025703.7713@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 02:57:03 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <62934@mimsy.umd.edu> <1992Dec21.200053.918@clsi.COM>
- Lines: 29
-
- In article <1992Dec21.200053.918@clsi.COM> kevin@clsi.com writes:
- >
- >In article <62934@mimsy.umd.edu>, purtilo@cs.umd.edu (Jim Purtilo) writes:
- >>
- >> {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....]
- >>
- >
- >You really mean enforce punishment (in the hope that adequate punishment will
- >deter the offenders).
- >
- >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.
- >
- >Excessive paranoia on the part of the gun owners will not help.
-
- It isn't paranoia when someone's really out to get you, Kev. And your
- IMHO is sufficient evidence that YOU are out to get gunowners, or at
- least support those who are.
-
- BTW, would you generalize "remove the means of offence" to rape?
- --
- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu
- Some news readers expect "Disclaimer:" here.
- Just say NO to police searches and seizures. Make them use force.
- (not responsible for bodily harm resulting from following above advice)
-