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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (5907)	2/15/2001 1:56:59 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 82486

New York has "tough" gun laws and high gun-related crime rates. Wyoming the opposite. Isn't this irony? Now, now. We mustn't confuse correlation with cause and effect. Regarding the difference between Wyoming and NYC, I had in mind more the physical space. You can live in Wyoming and shoot your gun out your living room window without doing any damage. New Yorkers have trouble getting their head around that. Conversely, folks from wide open spaces don't have any concept of how tense it can get when people are all crowded together and how dehumanizing a city can be. They don't get it that you don't want guns in the hands of crowded, cranky people. Sooner or later the sprawl will reach Wyoming, but their understanding will come too late. Changing the subject now. Can you tell me the argument against registration? Seems to me that the most sensible compromise is not banning guns but registering them to assist the authorities in fighting crime and to hold people accountable for their misuse of guns. The only argument against registration that I know of is from the militia types who think they need and would be able to defend themselves from a government gone bad. Karen

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