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From: eager@amd70.UUCP (Mike Eager)
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Subject: Re: Handguns: we're succumbing to mob rule
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Date: Thu, 1-Sep-83 21:39:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  1 21:39:25 1983
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I might add that one of the scariest developments of the past hundred years
is the development of the handgun.  Laws to regulate (not abridge) usually
follow the development of a new item.  Handguns were built by hand and were 
expensive in the 1850's.  They are now cheap and machine made.

The constitution doesn't mention handguns anywhere.  It also doesn't mention 
airplanes, television, cars, and a host of other regulated items.  The writers
of the constituion left to the congress the right to regulate any number of
area, handguns is one of them.

A question:  Presumably the person who does not want gun control laws because
they will "disarm" him is also against drivers licenses because they will
abridge his "right" to vehicular homicide?