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From: esac@ihuxr.UUCP (Bill Adams)
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Subject: Re: BANG BANG You're dead
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Date: Wed, 26-Oct-83 17:01:47 EST
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All this talk about handgun regulation is really getting old.
The fact of the matter is , the SAD fact of the matter is that
handgun regulation as presently proposed and/or practiced
today won't stop anyone from getting a gun if they really want
one.  Laura's comment that she knew five people that could get
her a gun is the rule, not the exception.  I don't want one for
reasons of my own but if I did I think I could have one by
tomorrow noon at the latest.

Let's face it folks, guns aren't the problem but a manifestation
of the problem.  Some of us are pretty violent people, and handguns
only make it easier for us to be violent.  I would agree with
anyone who says guns make it EXTREMELY easy to kill someone.  I would like
to see guns and ALL weapons of detached destruction disappear
from this planet.  But I don't think handgun regulation in any
form now proposed or soon to be proposed will make any significant
dent in the problem.

I don't have any answers either.  So if you're looking for an alternate
proposal, sorry.  I thought at one time that it would be nice if
anyone even caught with a handgun should be summarily executed on
the spot ( no due process, of course).  But that would make it easy
for a policeman with a grudge (and a throwaway piece) to get rid of
anyone he wanted to.

BTW, I heard that a man was suing the village of Morton Grove for their
anti-handgun regulation because he said it made the whole community a
sitting duck for criminals (burglars, armed robbers, etc.).  As part
of his brief, he cited statistics showing an increase in crime since
the ordinance was passed.  Anyone else know anything about this?

Also BTW, the police and council members were exempted from the
ordinance.  The police I understand but why the council members?

That's all I'll say unless we can get some new ideas on the subject, 
realistic or otherwise.

Peace
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Bill Adams
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Bill Adams
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