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- From: drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury)
- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Subject: Re: ALERT! Anti-gun meeting in NoVA
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.211422.11378@alw.nih.gov>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 21:14:22 GMT
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- Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
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- In 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.
-
- What are you saying? That we are all supposed to turn in our
- cars to the government because somebody might abuse his driving
- privileges?
- --
- Richard A. Drury
- drury@helix.nih.gov
-