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

To: long-gone who wrote (1889)	10/9/2000 10:27:58 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

LG: I'm not making a reactionary political statement with gun ownership. It is largely tradition and family connection that even causes me to own them and continue owning them. I think many people who have bought guns recently are idiots. See my post about the guys at the range (one of the major reasons I gave up sport target shooting). The restriction of our rights won't be through goose-stepping thugs in the street, it will be the insidious court-sanctioned erosion of personal rights involving dominion over your person (drug tests and abortion), privacy invasion (aerial surveillance and random stops) and thought control (mixing of church and state policy, forcing "scientific" treatment of Creationism dogma). This is far more likely than reactionary images of fascist thugs knocking down my door. Guns and laws dealing with them should be handled like most things... with reason. Whether or not Al Gore wins, his ability, as Executive, is limited by the Constitution and he would have to get Congress to send him a bill banning all weapons (I'd like to see a reference where he actually said that he supported that, in so many words, BTW). See my post about the 2nd Amendment. I think reasonable people can say the intent was to defend the citizenry from a centralized government and that the fact that the Governors control the Reserve units provides the functional intent intended by the Constitution. Any private gun ownership at all augments this. The rest is traditional interpretation and a reasonable expectation that weapon owners have to continue to own weapons. We are used to owning rifles and pistols. People used to own horses in urban areas. Rode them to work... People have to get used to change. There may be a compelling public health argument for gun control. The automobile was introduced to help solve the manure problem of the former right of horse ownership. I think we may be there now. What aspects of gun control are you specifically against and why?