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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: ALERT! Anti-gun meeting in NoVA
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.025939.14797@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 02:59:39 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <62748@mimsy.umd.edu> <1h2uvkINNt2t@mirror.digex.com> <5340@prcrs.prc.com>
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- In article <5340@prcrs.prc.com> terry@prcrs.prc.com (Terry Cunningham) writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- Yes, we do. The driving test measures little more than whether you
- can perform the physical and mental actions involved in driving.
- Nothing to do with responsibility. An equivalent test for guns would
- involve being able to load the gun, pick it up, and fire it in
- approximately the right direction.
-
- When I took my driver's test, the test involved parallel parking, and
- several right turns. That's it.
-
- On the other hand, if you would still like to make an analogy
- between gun licenses and driver's licenses, there are quite a few
- other consequences that I suspect you wouldn't like.
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- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu
- Some news readers expect "Disclaimer:" here.
- Just say NO to police searches and seizures. Make them use force.
- (not responsible for bodily harm resulting from following above advice)
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