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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: RE: Handguns for Criminals ONLY!
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Date: Fri, 23-Sep-83 14:56:35 EDT
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=====================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!
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Carl Amport ihuxm!cwa

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

You are commenting on two articles, one of them mine, and neither of
which suggested that people who commit crimes should be allowed guns.
Both articles said that if no-one was allowed guns except police and
the armed forces, then anyone with a gun would be, *de facto* a criminal.
Furthermore, the criminal with a gun would be less likely to use it
on *me* if he was pretty sure I did not have one. A scared thief is
a dangerous thief. Yes, we are for real, and I think we represent more
than half the people on this continent if I read the polls aright.

Martin Taylor

P.S. It is "defence" in all English-speaking countries except the USA.
"Defenze" would normally be the pronunciation of "defense".