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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: The next stage of handgun regulation..
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Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 08:53:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 08:53:41 1983
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Anybody want to argue that a handgun is not an efficient weapon? I am going
to assume not. (not that there aren't more efficient weapons, and not
that some handguns are terribly inefficient wweapons, mind you.)

Okay. handguns are illegal here in Toronto. They have been for all of
my lifetime. Suppose I wanted to get a gun. Do you know how long it
would take me? One phone call. I know at least 5 people who would be
willing to sell me an illegal gun. And I'm not a criminal with a special
interest in these things. I just know a lot of people.

Suppose you ban handguns. Are you going to stop the people who want them
from getting them? I think not. So Ray's highway accidents are going to
keep happening, given that people who get kicks from randomly shooting
strangers do not feel constrained by the fact that owning a gun is illegal.
Shooting people is illegal, and that hasn't stopped them, after all.

Are we supposed to ban guns, and then accept the deaths that arise when
somebody illegally shoots someone with their illegal handgun as acts of
God? 

Laura Creighton
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