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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (1854)	10/9/2000 6:43:42 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Do people usually go out and kill people intentionally with their pools and cars? I think that might just be the problem people have with guns. Just so you don't miss it- it's called intent. It seems like a reasonable way to discriminate between pools cars and guns.

To: TimF who wrote (1854)	10/9/2000 7:06:52 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10042

I don't think comparing the types of regulations on guns to cars or pools or pitbulls or hot air balloons is really germane. I was trying to illustrate the concept of regulation being with us everywhere, not the details. But I did get your point. Perhaps all the regulations on gun control are not logical, (I am surely not an expert); are you saying that because there are so many, it negates the either the need or the rightness of regulation or are you merely saying that in a compromise, some of these regs will need to be re-examined? Personally, though, I rather doubt the Founding Fathers foresaw assault weapons in the hands of a citizenry who no longer really has a militia like theirs.