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From: tac@cholula.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Gun Control - A personal experience
Message-ID: <14@cholula.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 13:39:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  5 13:39:51 1984
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>>  
>>                   A car came by with a search light and all of a sudden
>>  they heard a shot.  The car then accelerated in one hell of a hurry.  My
>>  cousin's husband went out and smelled gun smoke, so he called the police.
>>  They couldn't find the cat.  The next day the cat crawled home with a 22
>>  caliber bullet in her leg.  
>>  
>>  This wasn't the mafia, these were kids who were out on a Saturday night
>>  with nothing better to do!  No one was identified.  Someone, could very
>>  easily have been killed in this random act of violence.
>>  
>>  My question is what can we do to prevent this type of violence.  To me the
>>  only solution is gun control!  People with a legitimate need for guns,
>>  such as farmers or hunters should have them.  
>>  
>>  							Larry Welsch
>>  
Well, a good lesson in suburban violence if nothing else Larry, but you
drew the wrong conclusion.  What your story demonstrates a need for is not
gun control, but Juvenile control!  If guns were hard to come by, these
sort of "destruction for the fun of it" people would still find a way to
destroy and kill.  If they couldn't 'borrow' a gun from one of their 
"hunter" or "farmer" fathers, they would find some other weapon.  

When a person has measles, do you prescribe acne medicine for the 
red spots on his/her face?  Why, then, would you prescribe gun control
for senseless random violence?

From the Soapbox of
Tom Condon     {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac}

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