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- From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
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- Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:38:17 GMT
- References: <1992Nov8.030704.3898@netcom.com> <1794@rwing.UUCP> <1992Nov10.044148.22135@netcom.com> <BxIAG2.6s6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Nov12.070004.1556@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Nov12.070004.1556@netcom.com>, gurgle@netcom.com (Pete Gontier) writes:
- > amirza@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Anmar Caves) writes:
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- > >...it would hurt. History has proven this time and time again.
- > >New York, Wash. DC, Chicago, all places that have banned guns and have
- > >the highest crime rates in the country, with the crime rates rising
- > >dramatically after the citizenry was unarmed.
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- > It might be that the U.S. is already too screwed up with weird
- > judeo-Xian guilt/hate for a ban on handguns to result in anything but
- > pandemonium. See? I'm a reasonable guy. I'm willing to fall back
- > to the position: "In any *reasonable* society, this would work..."
- > Like, perhaps, the majority of other western societies.
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- Hey, Mexico is a great example. Jamaica is another one. Lots of
- Judeo-Christian guilt in Jamaica. But at least the guns are banned.
- Totally.
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