Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site unmvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!unmvax!cliff From: cliff@unmvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: democracy vs. indefinate incarceration/private deadly force Message-ID: <563@unmvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Dec-84 18:14:25 EST Article-I.D.: unmvax.563 Posted: Tue Dec 25 18:14:25 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Dec-84 05:43:32 EST References:<1305@dciem.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 18 > >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] {purdue, cmcl2, ihnp4}!lanl!unmvax!cliff {csu-cs, pur-ee, convex, gatech, ucbvax}!unmvax!cliff 4744 Trumbull S.E. - Albuquerque NM 87108 - (505) 265-9143