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- Newsgroups: dc.talk.guns
- Path: sparky!uunet!clsi!kevin
- From: kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron)
- Subject: Re: Gun control
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.203309.9543@clsi.COM>
- Originator: kevin@dubhe
- Sender: usenet@clsi.COM
- Reply-To: kevin@clsi.com
- Organization: Five & You're Dead
- References: <1juvioINNcs7@digex.digex.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 20:33:09 GMT
- Lines: 108
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- In article <1juvioINNcs7@digex.digex.com>, dougnews@access.digex.com (Doug Humphrey) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan19.203140.5215@clsi.COM> kevin@clsi.com writes:
- > >
- > >> The automobile analogy works a little here;
- > >
- > >But not very well.
- >
- > You don't address any of the points that I make, you just
- > blow them off with a one liner. This is one reason why
- > it is not possible to have a rational discussion with you....
-
- Guns are not cars. I need a car to get to work to earn my living. I do not need
- a gun. Hopefully I will never need a gun.
-
- > >There is a happy medium in most things. While we know that if there were no
- > >guns no-one will get shot, we also know that there will always be some guns
- > >around. Not everybody wants to carry a gun, so they are automatically at
- > >a disadvantage to criminals who do. The aim of a democracy is to find the
- > > happy medium, and that will require compromise on both sides.
- >
- > Not everyone wants to wear seat-belts; if they do not, they are
- > making a choice that might lower their safety, but it is their
- > choice.
- > Not everyone wants to carry a gun; is that a reason
- > why nobody should be allowed to do it?
-
- People can drive without seat-belts as far as I care - provided they are covered
- by their insurance for the potentially larger hosplital bills they are likely
- to incur.
-
- > Not everyone wants to carry a gun; is that a reason
- > why nobody should be allowed to do it?
-
- Not everybody can use a gun (it requires some level of physical ability and
- skill). And once again I never advocated a "ban".
-
- > They are not "automatically" at a disadvantage. Through their action
- > or inaction they are at a disadvantage. They make a concious decision
- > to be at a disadvantage. That is not "automatic".
-
- Not true - they are automatically at a disadvantage because they have to make
- a concious decision to arm themselves (we are not born with guns).
-
- > >> >My point was that a shotgun is a perfectly good home defense weapon,
- > >> >but it is difficult to carry concealed. It is therefore a weapon that
- > >> >I have no objection to people owning.
- > >>
- > >> Ah! Then you might consider a law to allow open carry? Open
- > >> carry laws are VERY strict about concealment.
- > >
- > >No, the idea is to make it difficult to buy weapons that are easily concealed,
- > >which makes it difficult to carry guns on the streets without it being obvious
- > >(to the police etc.).
- >
- > But in the paragraph above you state "we also know that there will always
- > be some guns around". What kind of guns are you talking about?
-
- Shotguns and hunting rifles will always be available.
-
- > Are these "guns that will always be around" concealable? If so, and the
- > bad guys have them, then limiting the good guys to shotguns might
- > put the public "so they are automatically at a disadvantage to criminals
- > who do." to use your own words.
- > Inconsistant logical application Kev.
-
- What's limiting about a shotgun ? - and the risk is the same in DC anyway
- since you can't carry legally.
-
- > >> But, I have to question the belief system that causes you to
- > >> have a problem with concealment. Is it the fact that the weapon
- > >> is concealed that is a problem to be solved, or is the danger
- > >> something to do with the person who is carries the weapon?
- > >
- > >Ideally no civilian should need to carry a concealed gun, therefore people
- > >carrying guns would be either criminals or mentally deranged.
- >
- > What does that have to do with reality? Ideally?
-
- Reality is far from ideal. I would like to think that society was on a path of
- improvemnet towards some "ideal" - but then people like yourself keep standing
- in the way of progress.
-
- > >> Does someone who knows a deadly martial art have to have that
- > >> fact tattoed on his or her forehead in bright colors so that their
- > >> "weapon" is not "concealed"?
- > >
- > >Muggers and thieves are not generally martial artists as far as I know.
- >
- > Really? Cite your references. Name the dojo and the instructor
- > that gives you this enlightened information.
-
- You brought it up, cite your own references saying they are a threat.
-
- > By the way, I am still waiting for your information on ammo that
- > will allow an assault weapon to be safe as a home defense weapon.
-
- Haven't had the time to do the research yet - but I will. It's a familiar problem
- to the British army in N. Ireland where they patrol housing estates - so I know
- someone has done it, even if it isn't public knowledge.
-
- > Put up or shut up Kev. Do you know anything about this, or are
- > you just a know-nothing blowhard asshole who loves to hear himself type?
-
- You type more than I do :-)
-
- Kev.
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