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- From: pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai)
- Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.214859.26168@adobe.com>
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- References: <1992Nov10.121736.21575@watson.ibm.com> <1dp5mpINNfat@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1992Nov11.151529.14633@cci632.cci.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:48:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.151529.14633@cci632.cci.com> sjo@cci632.cci.com (Steve Owens) writes:
- >In article <1dp5mpINNfat@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
- >>No sane person
- >>believes that the registring/ banning / whatever of guns would sole all
- >>problems. Neither does medicine solve the problem of death. But even
- >>bandaids help ( or don't yo own any of those since they aren't the
- >>complete solution)/
- >
- > No, I'm interested in a band-aid that addresses the problem.
- >Medicine does this (it cures a disease that could cause death). Waiting
- >periods and bans only serve to take firearms out of the hands of
- >law-abiding. The criminal can still get the firearms he/she wants on
- >the black market. No waiting. No background checks. No limitation on
-
- Even if it were possible to make all 200 million or so guns in private
- hands disappear and prevent new ones from being made or imported
- (compare to success of US War on Drugs), is this what we want? Is a
- woman free from rape simply because criminals now have only knives,
- clubs and their two strong arms to use? Or are people like Unruh simply
- insensitive to the situation of women and the elderly as long as *he*
- can have a "fair" fight with the criminals? Has Unruh ever considered
- that criminals can work together so that it might be two of them
- against one of him?
-
- --
- My opinions are my own.
-