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Politics : The 2nd Amendment-- The Facts........ -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PJ Strifas who wrote (1069)	5/1/2000 1:18:00 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10167

PJ I'm much more interested in what we can do that will give us a chance to have a safer world. Read John Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime". States that allow citizens the right to carry concealed weapons have not shown increases in crime, quite the opposite. In Vermont you need no license and it is one of the safest states in the U.S. The history of registration followed by confiscation as in England and Australia not to mention Nazi Germany is enough evidence for most people not to trust a government that wants to register and "inspect". Your comments seem to refer to the Swiss who "issue" (give) a fully automatic rifle to each member of the militia, as well as ammo that must be accounted for. If the government gave me the M-16 and the ammo, then they would have the right to inspect it and the ammo. If I provide these for myself, it is my property, protected by the 4th amendment. Prove your analogy that a safe world is a free world. I do not claim that a free country by definition a safe place. If you propose to trade freedom for safety, in the words of Ben Franklin and many others, you will have neither. If you do not acknowledge the reality that government is out to confiscate then dialogue is difficult. Even education can be used to control (and eventually) confiscate guns. Government does not belong in this any more than it belongs in religion. So how'd you like my golf analogy? Was it that bad?