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- From: terry@prcrs.prc.com (Terry Cunningham)
- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Subject: Re: ALERT! Anti-gun meeting in NoVA
- Message-ID: <5340@prcrs.prc.com>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 20:37:00 GMT
- References: <9DEC199215000830@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> <62748@mimsy.umd.edu> <1h2uvkINNt2t@mirror.digex.com>
- Organization: PRC Realty Systems, McLean, VA
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- In article <1h2uvkINNt2t@mirror.digex.com>, dougnews@access.digex.com (Doug Humphrey) writes:
- >
- > The priciple of "innocent until proven guilty"
- > has always made US law lean toward the concept that you get the
- > opportunity to go do a crime if you are so inclined, because we can
- > not assume automatically that if the opportunity presents itself
- > you will take it; you have the chance to do it, or not do it, and
- > thus innocent or guilty is in your hands. You are not pre-judged.
- >
- > I prefer to give everyone the freedom, and then deal
- > with the few that abuse it, rather than take it from the many in order
- > to prevent the abuse of the few.
- >
-
- Once again I will use my auto licensing analogy: We don't let everyone have
- a car and let them loose on the roads, THEN figure out who is capable of
- driving responsibly and who isn't. We set up tests, require insurance,
- and monitor our roadways.
-
- I feel that we should not allow unrestricted use of handguns, then figure
- out afterwards who the criminals were. Your own response indicates the
- high number of repeat offenders that show up, yet the gun lobby has shown
- no interest in effecting the kinds of checks that may prevent even these
- people from aquiring handguns easily.
-
- Law abiding citizens that will not abuse the driving privilege are willing
- to take competency tests and get the proper liscenses in order to drive;
- without screaming 'that's being declared guilty before proof of innocence'.
- Why is it so incongruous to you to apply the same restrictions on handguns?
-
- Terry
-
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