RE: Alarming statistics.

["Dom de Bechi" <dddl21455@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Robert J. Hansen [mailto:rjhansen@inav.net]
Sent: 29 June 2001 03:57
To: millenniums-end-l@firedrake.org
Subject: Re: Alarming statistics.


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> Without wishing to be overtly sarcastic, what the hell has 'accident'
> got to do with it? How many intentional gun injuries are there per year?

Depriving criminals, the mentally ill, the drug addicted and so on the
ability to purchase or obtain firearms is an admirable goal.  I don't know
a single gun owner who's against it.  But if the only way to do this is to
deprive 80,000,000 peaceful, law-abiding citizens of their Constitutional
rights, is that really something we want to do?  Some people think yes;
others think no.  Liberty involves a lot of tradeoffs, and the gun-control
debate is one of the most contentious tradeoffs being discussed today.

But that still does not answer why you need a 'Constitutional right to bear
arms. Surely one person's liberty to carry a gun can infringe on another's
liberty not to be shot. The truth of it is that you don't need a gun unless
you intend at some stage to use it.

> The simple fact that you have more gun owners than there are people in
> the UK is a scary enough prospect. If you put guns into the hands of

The simple fact remains that the US is not the UK.  We fought a war just
to get away from y'all telling us how to live our lives, and by and large,
we think that was the best decision we ever made.  :)

And we don't?	:) :)

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