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From: cliff@unmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: democracy vs. indefinate incarceration/private deadly force
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Date: Tue, 25-Dec-84 18:14:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 25 18:14:25 1984
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> >By my observation, the people who want handgun control are generally
> >the same ones who are against locking criminals up and throwing away the
> >key, against allowing private citizens to defend themselves and/or their
> >property with deadly force, ...
> 
> Dead right!  And in a democracy, we SHOULD be against those things.

Of course democracy doesn't imply any set of morals.  In a democracy
unhampered by untouchables like a bill of rights, a majority of people
could vote in the complete annihilation of any minority much less the
things mentioned above.  Some people (including the writers of the U.S.
Constitution) were or are in favor of well defined limitations on what the
government can and can't do.

	--Cliff [Matthews]
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