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To: pezz who wrote (5695)	3/8/2000 12:51:00 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

pezz, please don't twist my words. You know that I meant that trigger locks might work if they were infallible. The reason they probably won't work, is because, odds are that they can be jimmied by criminals, who will not put them back, and, since they do not lock themselves, incompetent parents are very likely to leave them of, or unlocked. If they were infallible, they would save some lives but, they are not. ~H~

To: pezz who wrote (5695)	3/10/2000 9:35:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

<<Trigger locks may help >> Then why not?? How many children's lives make the inconvenience worth while?........ Maybe just one....... If it's yourn. Come, now, pezz, you know better than to use that kind of argument. How many children's lives would be saved if every gun owner had to hire a full time police officer to watch the gun at all times? Actually, four full time officers to provide 24 hour coverage. That would definitely save lives. By your logic, we should do it. Heck, why not just equip every gun with a built-in GPS transmitter and have a giant computer tracking every gun in the country, and make everyone call in every time they are going to move their gun and report the GPS waypoints of the guns they are carrying. Then if any gun starts moving without authorization, we can send in the marines. That would surely save lives. Every decision is a compromise between safety and the broader public interest. Your ad hominum argument -- any price is enough to save one little girl's life -- is beneath you. The price we would have to pay to guarantee that NO little girl in America EVER got shot with a gun again is simply too high, and you know it. The first time a kid gets killed with an unlocked trigger lock gun (or one on which the trigger lock is disabled) you will go off on some new law or concept, and so and so on until indeed you essentially get to one of my alternatives above. Freedom never has been and never will be free.