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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!purtilo
- From: purtilo@cs.umd.edu (Jim Purtilo)
- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Subject: Re: ALERT! Anti-gun meeting in NoVA
- Message-ID: <63037@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:59:24 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.144945.7622@clsi.COM> <63011@mimsy.umd.edu> <1992Dec23.152242.13475@clsi.COM>
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- Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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- In article <1992Dec23.152242.13475@clsi.COM> kevin@clsi.com writes:
- >You obviously didn't read what I wrote.
-
- On the contrary. I watch people who promote views dangerous to this
- society very closely.
-
- >> ... all on the premise that this honest citizen *might* become a criminal?
- >> That he or she may *may* someday be irresponsible?
- >
- >Most criminals start out as 'honest' citizens.
-
- There you have it, folks, we all better be locked up before we become criminals.
-
- >> 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 repor
- >> on the evening news.
- >
- >By definition that is not prevention.
-
- Excuse me? Stopping the crimes by people who demonstrate a willingness
- to do violence, instead of releasing them to Kev so they are free to commit
- all the crimes they can get away with, is "not prevention"???
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