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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (283388)4/7/2006 5:45:24 PM
From: TimF   of 1576162
 

Tim, its very simple guns kill.

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They rarely go off by themselves. People kill using guns (and other things). Yes its easier to kill with a gun than a knife or unarmed. Its also easier to defend yourself. Criminals might kill with guns. Outlaw guns, and the criminals are the only people with guns. You tilt the balance towards the criminals.

Now I understand that some people have the need to hunt......that its a sport. And I believe they should be accomodated.....within reason. That means limiting access, limiting numbers owned and requiring a lengthy approval process.

A procedure which hunters might follow, but which habitual and/or professional violent criminals probably will not.

You compared selling guns to selling drugs. Although I think both should be legal, street drugs don't have constitutional protection, and are rarely useful in self defense. But there is one way in that they are similar. They are both very common, and are likely to be common whatever laws we pass against them. Guns would be even harder to stamp out than drugs because you don't have to use up guns, or even their ammo that quickly. Drugs on the other hand get used up.

why I will criticize and condemn the NRA at every opportunity.

Even if you hate the group, I don't think you should support slander against it.

Tim
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