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- From: geoffm@netcom.com (Geoff Miller)
- Subject: Re: More Gun Control
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.004303.16695@netcom.com>
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- References: <C14Aoq.3Ap@vcd.hp.com> <1993Jan20.171048.15553@dazixco.ingr.com> <1993Jan26.183828.23663@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:43:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.183828.23663@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bberbeni@nyx.cs.du.edu
- (Bill Berbenich) writes:
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- >Of course, you PUNISH them. That's ultimately what should be done any time
- >anyone violates the rights of another, with a mechanical device or
- >otherwise.
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- >So all we've done in the meantime is added a layer of laws to confound the
- >innocent and the law-abiding. We've thumbed our noses at the Constitution,
- >all in the name of a "Do something, ANYTHING" public hype. But we have
- >ended up with the same old callous attitudes about human life and we have
- >only deterred those people who we should not be deterring, the honest
- >citizens.
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- That's the crux of the problem: We're muddling through a time in which
- a premium is placed on quickie, simplistic pseudo-solutions that pander
- to public hysteria, at the expense of the notion of personal accountability.
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- Geoff
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