Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-edu1!rafferty From: rafferty@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA (Colin Rafferty) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: The right to be a lethal danger Message-ID: <378@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA> Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 03:53:02 EDT Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-e.378 Posted: Sat Jun 22 03:53:02 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 23:53:57 EDT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 43 > To be perfectly honest, I'm not advocating the generic liberal ban on > handguns. I do, however, think you are assuming the generic conservative > notion "If you outlaw handguns only outlaws will have them" is true. > Sure I'd like a gun, maybe a bazooka, handy if someone tried to > violate my daughter, but this scenario is not as likely as one involving > a drunken argument (not that I would ever do such a thing) that escalates > to the use of firearms. > > I don't wish to deny you the use of your guns. I have fond memories of > the old camp rifle range and all that, but I read so many more articles > in my daily rag involving friends/relatives shooting each other than > some heroic Not-so-Dirty-Harry picking off the pervert that is intent > on molesting/robbing/assaulting NSDH's loved one. > > Keep your guns. I'm sure you are a responsible gun owner. > B-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-U-T: > > 1) Don't ignore the statistics of who usually gets shot by whom. > a. family members by family members > b. blacks by blacks > > 2) Please don't get rowdy in my neighborhood with your guns available. > > 3) Don't underestimate the potential for handgun abuse. > > -Don't Shoot! > [ O-O ] Todd Jones Actually Todd, I don't even own my own a gun, and have only used one in summer camp. The major reason I don't is that I'm not sure if I could trust myself with one. I just think that it's a person own choice. A few weeks back, someone posted some basic rules to owning a gun. My site trashed the article, but they went something like "A gun is always, always, always, always loaded. NEVER point a gun at something you don't want to shoot. etc..." They were very some reasonable rules. ---- Colin Rafferty { Math Department, Carnegie-Mellon University } "... N.R.A. hunters, who drink beer, don't vote, and lie to their wives about where they were all last weekend." -Governor Mario Cuomo (NY-D)