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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: handgun reqistration...
Message-ID: <433@whuxl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 14:07:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 21 14:07:58 1985
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> 
> Look -- you register your car, why not your sexual preferences?  Why
> not the contents of your safe deposit box?  Why not your travel
> intentions?
> 
> Get it?  The fact that one registers one thing doesn't justify registering
> another, unless they are somehow similar.  Given all the "oh but cars
> kill people while being used for a constructive task and are therefore
> different from guns" I hear from gun control advocates, I'm surprised you
> would imply such similarity.

Can I kill anybody with my sexual preferences?  Or the contents of my safe
deposit box? Or my travel intentions?  I think these are all different
from handgun ownership whose sole purpose is killing or maiming other
people.  Is it not?
  tim sevener   whuxl!orb