Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site uw-june Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!emma From: emma@uw-june.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto,net.flame Subject: Re: Penis Substitutes Message-ID: <478@uw-june> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 12:23:09 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-june.478 Posted: Mon Jun 13 12:23:09 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 05:17:57 EDT References: <594@sdchema.UUCP> Organization: U. Washington, Computer Sci Lines: 27 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.