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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (36742)	5/3/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I am trying to ask the tough questions here <G>. Unfortunately, we are grappling with insufficient data in an emotionally charged arena. The limitations on personal freedoms is a hot-button. But the sooner we put this issue in a reasonable analytical framework, the sooner we can arrive at some resolution of the issues and arrive at a national consensus. The 2nd Amendment and other legalities are red herrings, and we can deal with that later. Laws and Amendments can and do change to meet changing conditions. Prohibition of slavery hurt private property rights of slave owners. But I don't want to get bogged down in those details, because they are really beside the point. Just lump them into the cost side of the equation, and if they become economically onorous they can be mitigated by suitable buy-backs, which I will now do: Let me now refine my hypothetical: suppose the government pays every registered gun owner the fair market value for his hand guns, and we now see a 50% reduction in gun-related deaths, would you still oppose gun control? If yes, suppose the figure were 100% reduction, how would you feel? ******** I disagree entirely with your reading of the legal issues. Certainly nobody would argue that the 2nd Amendment guarantees my right to own an H-bomb (for legitimate duck hunting, of course!). Private ownership of machine guns has been banned for some time, and to my knowledge the Supreme Court has never held that the 2nd Amendment guaranteed private ownership of guns. My (limited) knowledge indicates that the 2nd Amendment refers only to militias (the National Guard). TTFN, CTC