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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: ALERT! Anti-gun meeting in NoVA
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.033712.5032@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 03:37:12 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <1992Dec21.200053.918@clsi.COM> <1992Dec22.025703.7713@eng.umd.edu> <1992Dec22.150333.7718@clsi.COM>
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- In article <1992Dec22.150333.7718@clsi.COM> kevin@clsi.com writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Dec22.025703.7713@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
- >> In article <1992Dec21.200053.918@clsi.COM> kevin@clsi.com writes:
- >> >
- >> >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.
- >
- >It is "excessive" paranoia if you fight all attempts to restrict handgun sales.
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- Even when those attempts are being made by the same people who have
- stated openly that they aim to ban all handguns, and want severe
- restrictions on other weapons as well? Seems like prudence to me, not
- paranoia. When someone wants the whole pie, you don't stand idly by
- while they take pieces.
-
- >I like shooting as a hobby, and I intend to buy a .22 Ruger sometime soon for
- >target practice. When I asked the sales staff at "On Target" if they had any
- >.38 Supers they said "we don't sell many of them - it's more of a target gun",
- >i.e. the guns they have are mostly designed for killing people.
-
- You read a lot into that statement, now, didn't you?
-
- >> BTW, would you generalize "remove the means of offence" to rape?
- >
- >Drawing silly parallels is not going to help your argument.
- >
- >Kev.
-
- It was only intended to counter your reference to "removing the means
- of the offence" as a method which was somehow obviously superior to
- after the fact punishment.
-
- --
- 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)
-