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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
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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
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