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- From: palmer@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Michael T. Palmer)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: Registered Keys - why the need?
- Date: 6 Nov 92 00:10:01 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
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- strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
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- >Karl Denninger asserts that registration is a prelude to confiscation.
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- >In most of the world cars have been registered for many years, yet no
- >democratic government has used that as a way to confiscate cars
- >(except for those used in law violations).
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- The only difference is that people use cars to kill tens of thousands every
- year. Guns and cryptography are much less effective, so of course they must
- be strictly controlled.
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- Wait... did I forget to raise my hand as a sarcasm alert?
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- Cars do, in fact, help maintain our freedom by giving us mobility other
- than on state-run transportation systems. But they are easy to spot, easy
- to track, and hard to hide in your coat or on a floppy disk.
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