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Subject: Re: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 03:37:53 EST
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>***** inmet:net.politics / ihu1m!gadfly /  4:47 pm  Jan  4, 1985
>--
>[Sunny Kirsten] 
>>> Fact is, Handguns never kill anyone.
>>> People kill People, and they use a variety of tools to do so.
>
>Perhaps.  If armed with knives, clubs, or nothing at all, people
>who kill must feel the destruction of another's flesh (unless they're
>drugged into oblivion).  With a gun, though, you can shoot at an
>abstraction, deal death at a distance.  People who fire guns at others
>may not, in their own minds, be killing real individuals.  But I don't
>know, I've never done it.  Are there any war vets, ex-cops, or other
>folks out there who have intentionally fired a gun at a person?

Look, Ken.  In the case of handgun-only control, these 
squeamish people you're talking about would NOT arm themselves with 
knives, but with long guns, or perhaps sawed-off shotguns.

Those advocating controlling, or banning ALL such weapons, please say so.