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- From: williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: Registering "Assault Keys"
- Message-ID: <lg5gu8INN1m9@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 20:51:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.214859.26168@adobe.com> pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
- >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?
- ---
- More to the point -- are citizens free from being beaten at gunpoint
- by officers of the law acting outside the law? The Rodney King case
- is one example of officers acting outside the law (all white juries
- not withstanding). Another case was just recently when students at
- UCSC were maced, kicked and beaten while holding a sit-in. Some of
- the students pleaded just to be left alone as the cops were beating them.
- The cops thought this was the best way to get the students to disperse.
- The cops involved said they would use violent tactics again if the students
- refused to cooperate. When I found this out, I was incredulous. These
- were law *enforcement* officers? Whose laws are they enforcing?
-
- As for registering keys...why do law enforcement officials think
- they have a right to know what I am saying to another person. It seems
- like this is an infringement on *freedom* of expression -- if my expression
- to another person *must* be subject to monitoring, is it really free?
-
-
- -wat-
- --
- --- "If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same
- work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at
- any level?" -- Dr. Warren Farrell
-