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From: parnass@ihu1h.UUCP (Bob Parnass, AJ9S)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Handguns.
Message-ID: <469@ihu1h.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 20:57:08 EST
Article-I.D.: ihu1h.469
Posted: Mon Feb  4 20:57:08 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Feb-85 17:55:13 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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  In Britain the ownership of a	 TELEVISION  set  is  strictly
  controlled.

  I don't want the government controlling what I can and can't
  own.	Someday,  Uncle	 Sam  or  the  government  of whatever
  township YOU live in will pass a law outlawing something YOU
  own,	THEN  perhaps  you'll  gain  a better insight into the
  firearms issue.

  Banning the criminal use of, rather than the	possession  of
  firearms,   scanner	radios,	  whatever,  is	 a  reasonable
  approach. Anything more is an	unjust use of power.

   > You may not be aware, but there are countries in the world	where the
   > wholesale,	casual owning of firearms is illegal, and this does not	result
   > in	a defenceless population at the	perpetual mercy	of armed criminals
   > ( as some of the pro-gun lobby would argue	).
   >
   > In	Britain	the ownership of firearms is strictly controlled.

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