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- From: bz269@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James D. Del Vecchio)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: For gun control? No not really.
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 17:55:06 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, merritt@macro.bu.edu (Sean Merritt) says:
-
- >I believe that the proability of being shot is too high. There must
- >be an environmental change;
-
- >1) restrict gun availability
- Restrict from whom? We already bar legal purchace by
- minors, felons, and the insane. Who else would you bar?
-
- >2) restrict ammunition availabilty
- Again, restrict from whom? We already bar legal
- purchace by minors, and in many states felons and the insane.
- Who else would you bar?
-
- (Note that the ease of making ammo at home makes restrictions
- on factory ammo impotent. With my crude $20 press, I can make ~100
- rds of pistol ammunition an hour. With a better press, loading
- home-made ammo is much faster.)
-
- >3) allow people to create communities where the *can* control
- > guns and their use.
- You mean allow local governments to ban the keeping or bearing
- of arms? That is the case in NYC, DC, and parts of Il, like Chicago.
- Is the result what you intended? What utopias they are.
-
-
- >I don't intend to shock anyone. If the creation of autonomous
- >Anarcho-Capitalist zones shocks you, sorry. Jail me? Because
-
- If anarchist = no gov, and Capitalist = lassiez faire,
- then how do you wring "Social Engineering" out of the two?
- Sounds like a misuse of the term.
-
- >I am a Anarcho-Capitalist that believes Social Engineering is
- >possible. Or is my crime that I find the present proabilities
- >to compel me to gamble with my life. I but no such impositions
-
- _Life_ forces you to gamble with your life. The only
- way around it is to die.
-
- >on you. Infact all I ask is to join with others who think as
- >I do and create a sane and safe enviromnet.
-
- Say how.
- Jim Del Vecchio
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