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From: rigney@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: More on Handguns - (nf)
Message-ID: <3714@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 01:04:28 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  8 01:04:28 1983
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uokvax!rigney    Nov  2 10:11:00 1983

/***** uokvax:net.flame / kobold!tjt / 12:23 am  Nov 12, 1983 */

2. Banning handguns is a restriction of liberty.  All laws are a
   restriction of liberty.  However, your freedom to swing your hand should
   end before it reaches my nose.  You feel that very few things are
/* ---------- */

Yes, but you miss the point.  My freedom to swing my hand should stop
before it reaches your nose, but I shouldn't lose my hand just because
I could swing it at your nose, or worse still, because someone else
might swing at your nose.

So this quote concerns USING a gun, not owning them.  If no one
owned a gun no one could use a gun, but likewise if no one had
a hand no one could swing at someone's nose.   I'd prefer leaving
everyone's hands attached until they do something wrong with them.

			Carl
			..!ctvax!uokvax!rigney
			..!duke!uok!uokvax!rigney

P.S.  If no one had hands no one could fire guns.

	Guns don't kill people,
		Hands kill people.
:-)