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From: west@utcsri.UUCP (Thomas L. West)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame
Subject: Re: another twist on the gun issue
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Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 00:48:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 28 00:48:17 1985
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Reply-To: west@utcsri.UUCP (Thomas L. West)
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Summary: 

> 	     REPRINTED FROM AN EARLIER BROADCAST:
>
> The real flap over gun control is that EVERY TIME WEAPONS HAVE BEEN
> REGISTERED, GOVERMENT HAS EVENTUALLY CONFISCATED THE WEAPONS.

  And it would be about time!  American gun control (or more specifically, lack
thereof) account for a *large* proportion of the weapons used by Canadian
criminals since guns are rather harder to get here (and most importantly,
handguns are next to impossible to get (except by buying and smuggling from
the States.))

  The American gun control laws not only kill a good number of Americans,
they also do in a number of Canadians.  And we're intelligent enough to
have gun control laws.  This ain't justice.

        Tom West
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