Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bmcg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice From: bprice@bmcg.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Re: Gun Control Message-ID: <1395@bmcg.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 19:20:49 EDT Article-I.D.: bmcg.1395 Posted: Thu Sep 27 19:20:49 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 04:32:26 EDT References: <433@houxu.UUCP> <55300032@trsvax.UUCP> <166@scc.UUCP>Reply-To: bprice@bmcg.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Burroughs Corporation, San Diego Lines: 22 Summary: In article faustus@ucbcad.UUCP writes: >> It all boils down to a very simple issue, make people responsible for >> their actions, don't try to restrict the rights and privlidges of >> everybody else. > >Well, it'll be real consoling when you get shot to know that whoever shot >you is "responsible" for his actions. That doesn't make you any less dead, >does it? > > Wayne No, it doesn't make me any less dead. However, making "whoever shot [me]" responsible--really responsible--goes an awful long way toward making me less likely to get shot in the first place. That's quite a difference from the current "liberal" (e.g., gun-control) approach that continually increases the risk, by transferring responsibility to parents, governments, neighbors, acts of god, "diminished capacity", ... --Bill Price -- --Bill Price uucp: {decvax!ucbvax philabs}!sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice arpa:? sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice@nosc