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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (53685)8/31/1999 6:54:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I disagree. People have been using it on people since the invention of the sharp stick. As for using [guns] on the public ... nobody does that except the extremely rare spree shooter. But our media don't let us ever forget those spree shooters. Unless they were uniformed, like the ATF gents in Waco.

What we have here is the moral fallout of idea management. Propaganda. "Follow the money." In this case, power. Civil gun ownership is unappealing to those who are accumulating power, because it is an inherently distributive force.

You make it sound like you are entertaining the fallacy of identifying gun ownership with violence. This startles me since I usually see cleaner logic from you, Steven.

I am interested by your choice of words. Why "people" vs. "the public"? The relative value judgment is built right into the phrase. Loose cannon (pl.) vs. the common good.
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