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From: emma@uw-june.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Penis Substitutes
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Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 12:23:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 13 12:23:09 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 04:43:54 EDT
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Your article has spent a good deal of time dwelling on two points.

First, taking car outside of its design envelope causes accidents.

Second, it is possible to kill people with guns.

These are continuously juxtaposed to attempt to create an analogy, and
you finish by saying we need gun control laws and a 55 mph speed limit.

My response would be as follows.  First, there is speeding and there is
speeding.  The highways are designed around 70mph+ speeds; every
automobile I've ever driven is perfectly safe on the highway at these
speeds.  This is not outside the envelope!  Somebody doing 45 in a
school zone deserves everything the cops will want to do to them.  The
only reason to drive 55 is "It's The Law."  There is absolutely no
reason to vote for continuance of the inanity.

Your argument for gun control laws boils down to "people get hurt by
accident so protect them."  Unfortunately, in your own example, the NRA
member-hunter-father would most assuredly be licensed in any reasonable
gun control ordinance.  Even if not allowed a handgun, he would have
rifles in the house and his son would be just as likely to kill his
buddy with one of these.

One last note on teenagers and sports cars-- teenage males drive
anything fast, not just sports cars.  They're at least as likely to
kill themselves in daddy's Cadillac as in daddy's MG.
-Joe P.