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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: Re: Don't restrict MY access to handguns just because
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Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 12:35:46 EST
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>  As for the argument, "If handguns are outlawed then only outlaws
> will have handguns", at least then we will be able to find the outlaws 
> more easily, won't we?

    Sure.  All we have to do is to stop everyone and search all of their 
possessions.  The ones with the guns are the outlaws.  What?  The consti-
tution says we can't just search everyone?

>  If posession of a handgun were a felony, then it
> would be a lot easier to convict people who have committed crimes with
> guns, especially if there isn't much evidence besides the gun.
>       Wayne

    Well, considering that commission of a crime while in possession of a gun
is ALREADY a felony, I really don't see how you draw this conclusion.  

    Why not just enforce the laws already on the books, and toughen up the
penalties for crimes involving guns?  Plenty of things which are already
illegal are laughingly easy to obtain.  Why should illegal handguns be any
different?

-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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