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- From: hruby@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Registered Keys - why the need?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.082853.1692@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 08:28:52 -0500
- References: <DLB.92Nov4100421@fanny.wash.inmet.com> <1992Nov4.193112.2349@netcom.com> <a_rubin.721077147@dn66>
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- In article <a_rubin.721077147@dn66>, a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) writes:
- > In <PA146008.482.721071372@utkvm1.utk.edu> PA146008@utkvm1.utk.edu (David Veal) writes:
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- >> The major difference between guns and cars are that licensing and
- >>registration have not been suggested as a way to reduce the numbers of cars
- >>in private hands. This has been said a number of times for guns.
- >
- > Are you sure? Wasn't one of the EPA and California AQMD/ARB proposals a
- > buyback of old cars?
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- In fact, I just heard on NPR this morning that Virginia is planing on
- buying all cars in the state older than 1981 models so as to comply
- with the Clean Air Act. $700 each.
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- I wonder where they'll get the list of who owns those cars ...
- :-)
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