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To: ManyMoose who wrote (85017)9/16/2008 9:26:22 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541274
 
>>A common sense method of dealing with machine guns is to make abusing them a capital crime.<<

MM -

I find it interesting that you support the idea of going to war because another nation might attack us, but you don't support the idea of preemptively taking people's machine guns away.

Because that would mean that you wouldn't take any action relative to a person's machine gun until after they had abused it, and presumably harmed someone.

Or am I just failing to grasp some subtlety in your position?

- Allen



To: ManyMoose who wrote (85017)9/16/2008 9:27:27 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541274
 
Machine guns sit around for years without doing anything but rust until somebody loads them up for a purpose that is already ill

Ah, but the point then is that if they (those machine guns) weren't just hanging around the house, they could not be used to shoot up a McDonald's. As was done.


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