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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
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> 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)