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- Path: sparky!uunet!clsi!kevin
- From: kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron)
- Subject: Re: ALERT! Anti-gun meeting in NoVA
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.152242.13475@clsi.COM>
- Originator: kevin@dubhe
- Sender: usenet@clsi.COM
- Reply-To: kevin@clsi.com
- Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
- References: <1992Dec21.200053.918@clsi.COM> <62995@mimsy.umd.edu> <1992Dec22.144945.7622@clsi.COM> <63011@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 15:22:42 GMT
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- In article <63011@mimsy.umd.edu>, purtilo@cs.umd.edu (Jim Purtilo) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec22.144945.7622@clsi.COM> kevin@clsi.com writes:
- > >In article <62995@mimsy.umd.edu>, purtilo@cs.umd.edu (Jim Purtilo) writes:
- > >> In article <1992Dec21.200053.918@clsi.COM> kevin@clsi.com writes:
- > >>
- > >> Its not clear how Fascism will help, Kev ......
- > >
- > >???? Who is a Fascist ?????
- >
- > Sure looks like you are, Kev, from the position you have taken. You have
- > stated you want to ban firearms to "remove the means of the offence". So,
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- You obviously didn't read what I wrote.
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- > at the same time you want to remove the means of self defense from millions
- > of honest citizens, leave them open to prey by whatever criminals you prefer
- > to protect, and remove the last "check" on a mammoth government in a system
- > of checks and balances ....
- >
- > ... all on the premise that this honest citizen *might* become a criminal?
- > That he or she may *may* someday be irresponsible?
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- Most criminals start out as 'honest' citizens.
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- >
- > >> system of justice?
- > >What ? - I was asking for prevention.
- >
- > So am I! Strong enforcement of existing laws would get offenders off the
- > streets the first time you catch them, instead of allowing them out to commit
- > hundreds, if not thousands, of crimes -- some of them heinous enough to report
- > on the evening news.
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- By definition that is not prevention.
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- > Face it. You're not going to stop all crime.
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- Don't expect to.
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- > >No matter how many times I read it, it still looks like bull****.
- >
- > Ahh, ever articulate in debate.
- >
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- Maybe I should have said "unfounded drivel".
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- Kev.
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