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To: Lane3 who wrote (5914)	2/15/2001 2:50:32 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) of 82486

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. Criminals will not register and in fact are not required to as normal (gag) law-abiding citizens are. shadeslanding.com I'm not aware how registration will assist only that it is a claim and that you must assume the offender is not a criminal but a good citizen gone bad. I'm open to good logic to persuade me. I have registered (and historically it is a prelude to confiscation) as required by law (even though I disagree and believe that eventually a Supreme Court decision will favor my views) so I don't qualify as a "militia" type who is overly paranoid. A little research will show that the "old dead guys" did indeed consider a government gone bad, so who am I to disagree with them. I try not to confuse correlation with cause and effect but was your comparison of Wyoming and New York based on your personal view of human nature and projected using the lowest common denominator? I'm not arguing the personal view since I've never been in NY and only in Wyoming briefly. But I'm not happy with a negative view of the city being able to negate the right to self-defense (again an issue of personal choice). I'm also unhappy with laws that appeal to emotion rather than reason. I do not envision that NY would become a place where everyone is armed (isn't this a straw man?) and doubt that many would go to the trouble (I'm assuming criminals will do as they please, as always) of owning and qualifying for concealed carry or in the case of NY just the simple permit to own. There is some evidence that criminals will seek the path of least resistance and pick on a populace of the unarmed and weak. It only makes sense and they are not really that dumb. It's interesting that some Police are required to carry their weapons off-duty (in other words, they're never off duty) and some are discouraged. We certainly are not of one mind on the issue no matter where we look.

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