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From: davidl@tekid.UUCP (David Levadie)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Handguns: we're succumbing to mob ru - (nf)
Message-ID: <1518@tekid.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Sep-83 15:05:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  8 15:05:27 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Sep-83 20:12:35 EDT
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 I haven't received any lengthy sociological dissertations in answer
to the question which I posted on the net in response to ANOTHER
letter like the one to which this message is a followup (whew!)
so I am reposting the question.  Maybe I will at least get a 
bowl of Quiche in the face.  To wit:

Why should I be restricted from owning ANY form of weaponry because
someone ELSE(s) have (has) shown themself (themselves) to be
irresponsible therewith?  I demand to be judged on my own merits
(demerits).  From that standpoint I would support gun owner
licensing, were it not for the fact that I have never encountered a
government which did not somehow manage to abuse every form of
regulatory power granted to or usurped by it.

(Note - apropos of personal tactical nukes - they pollute, and
are therefore not target-specific enough to qualify as a personal
defense weapon.)