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  3. From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
  4. Subject: Re: More Gun Control
  5. Sender: news@vcd.hp.com (News user)
  6. Message-ID: <C1Jnxu.1Kv@vcd.hp.com>
  7. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:20:18 GMT
  8. References: <1993Jan21.132452.1981@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1993Jan21.195252.11505@igor.tamri.com> <1993Jan26.141747.18945@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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  11.  
  12. cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (Jing just wants to have fun) writes:
  13.  
  14. >I challenge you to come up with one, good, defensible
  15. >reason that anyone *needs* a gun.  The closest that I've ever heard anyone
  16. >come up with is "Defense of my home and family".
  17.  
  18. That in itself is a good reason.  However, the issue isn't need for guns, but
  19. rather whether gun control laws are needed.  I think the past 20 years have
  20. shown that gun control laws (with a few exceptions) serve only to disarm people
  21. in whose hands a gun is not a problem.  Gun control laws deflect attention
  22. away from the real issue which is the growing number of people who choose
  23. to commit violent crimes (with a gun, knife, bare hands, or whatever).  And I
  24. think the reasons for that are drugs, broken families, and a justice/
  25. rehabilitation system that just doesn't work.
  26.  
  27. -Dave
  28.