Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!nrh From: nrh@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Gun Control Message-ID: <1687@inmet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 00:29:12 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.1687 Posted: Thu Oct 4 00:29:12 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 04:18:02 EDT Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:ucbcad:-271100:inmet:3900141:000:846 Nf-From: inmet!nrh Sep 26 10:36:00 1984 >***** inmet:net.flame / ucbcad!faustus / 2:20 am Sep 26, 1984 >> 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? Try this on: "It'll be real consoling when you get shot to know that whoever shot you used an illegal gun. Will that make you any less dead?" If you think that gun control will mean that it is less likely that you'll get shot, SAY SO. (Back it up, of course -- you're trying to take people's freedom away, which you should only propose when you've VERY SOLID evidence that people would be better off without the freedom in question). Nat Howard