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- From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: More Gun Control
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.211947.16416@igor.tamri.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 21:19:47 GMT
- References: <1jhbv0INNaa6@umbc4.umbc.edu> <1993Jan26.180152.22283@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1k8kg9INNntn@umbc4.umbc.edu>
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- In article <1k8kg9INNntn@umbc4.umbc.edu> potler@umbc.edu (Laura Potler) writes:
- >>The founding fathers want to trust them. Were people more situationally-
- >>aware 200 years ago? possibly...
- >
- >different set of problems then.
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- Not really. 200 years ago, the main uses for guns were:
- 1. Hunting food
- 2. Protection against wild animals
- 3. Protection against Indians
- 4. Protection against governmental excesses, foreign invasions
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- Now, the main uses for guns are:
- 1. Hunting food
- 2. Innumerable sports
- 3. Self defense (tell me that people didn't need to protect their homes and
- businesses during the LA riot and the aftermath of the Florida Hurricane!)
- 4. Potential protection against governmental excesses.
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- don
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