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From: cwa@ihuxm.UUCP
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Subject: RE: Handguns for Criminals ONLY!
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Date: Tue, 20-Sep-83 13:00:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 20 13:00:18 1983
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I just had to comment on the terrifying remarks I have repeated below:

>>>===================
>>>      I, for one, would feel a lot safer if the only handguns around were
>>>      in the hands of professional criminals.
>>>
>>>      omsvax!dps

>If you think about it for a few seconds or longer, you will see that
>it is probably true. If the criminal is pretty sure you aren't going
>to kill him with a gun, he is unlikely to use it as his first method
>of defence. If he kills you, it will be from malice, not from fear.
>Not only would all the shootings in murders of passion be eliminated,
>but also so would most of those in the course of a crime. I, too,
>would feel a lot safer if the only handguns outside of the police
>and the armed forces were those owned ILLEGALLY by criminals.
>
>Martin Taylor


Your statements are proof of the NEED for the NRA and their fight against
people like you who think that only people who commit crimes should have
guns!

Are you two for real?     Don't even think of asking me for my guns 
before you can assure me that no criminals have any.   Why would you feel
safer if people guilty of murder, rape, robbery, or assault had guns and
I did not?   If people break into my house they had better fear for their
lives - because I would have the same fear because of them!

Granted, many people who think they are protecting themselves with guns 
don't know the trigger from the muzzle but it sounds like you think it is
my fault if someone breaks into my home or assaults me on the street and then
shoots me because I fight back.  

		VICTIMS DON'T COMMIT CRIMES - CRIMINALS DO.

I feel that anyone who enters my home without my invitation has given up
ALL RIGHTS and FREEDOMS - our judicial system has yet to take away the right
for a person to take whatever measures necessary to stop an intruder.

A sad commentary of the injustice in our society is the fact that legal
and law enforcement people advise that citizens involved in a home shooting
incident BE SURE TO KILL any intruder so that no lawsuits can be taken against
the victim by the guilty!   Otherwise, the robber is likely to sue you for 
injuries received while breaking into your own home!

Carl Amport ihuxm!cwa

PS.  It is "defense", as in "self-defense", while "defence" is something
     "de cat" sits on in "de alley".