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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: <1992Dec24.164944.26190@clsi.COM>
- Originator: kevin@dubhe
- Sender: usenet@clsi.COM
- Reply-To: kevin@clsi.com
- Organization: CAD Language Systems Inc.
- References: <1992Dec22.144945.7622@clsi.COM> <63011@mimsy.umd.edu> <1992Dec23.152242.13475@clsi.COM> <63037@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 16:49:44 GMT
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- In article <63037@mimsy.umd.edu>, purtilo@cs.umd.edu (Jim Purtilo) writes:
- > 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.
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- Get a mirror.
-
- > >> ... 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.
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- No, only the brain-dead.
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- > >> 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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- Want to define "demonstrate a willingness to do violence" for us ?
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- Kev.
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