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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: McDonald's (San Diego) Massacre
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Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 21:19:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 24 21:19:12 1984
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A couple of fallacies in the following arguments:

>Wrong. Thanks to the vermin who do their best to screw up my life
>with organizations promoting restrictions on gun ownership, and laws
>restricting the carrying of weapons, none of the people in that
>McDonalds were armed...

It's not that hard to be able to carry arms in most places.  The clown that
went berserk managed to have TWO guns with him and just walked into the
place.

>...If there were no such restrictions, a certain
>percentage of those customers would have chosen to be armed, and
>if it was a common thing to go about armed, those who did would be
>skilled in the use of arms...

Sure - just the same way that if it were common to drive a car, those who
did would be skilled drivers!  (I'm not setting out here to take a
gun-control position, but why should I expect that someone who thinks that
a Big Mac is reasonable food is going to be able to handle a gun in a
rational fashion?:-)

As I said, I'm not trying to take a position on either side of gun
control, but I'd like to see some better-thought-out arguments.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.