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From: rafferty@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA (Colin Rafferty)
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Subject: Re: The right to be a lethal danger
Message-ID: <342@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 08:12:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 08:12:14 1985
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Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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> 
> You own a car because it's a necessary tool in pursuing a normal and peacable
> life; you might own a 7-inch knife or a hatchet for the same reason. A gun is
> not necessary for any normal and peacable purpose other than target sport or
> collection. They are recreations, not necessities, and do not justify the 
> pitifully lax control of gun ownership.
> 
> Charlie Lambert @ the Death Star, IL.
> 

I might own a gun because I don't enjoy having my home robbed by nasty
burglars.  If you can't realise that there are reasonable uses for a gun,
such as defending your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, and you
think that they're only used for running amok in K-Mart, then you have your
head so far up that you can't even see daylight.

----
            Colin Rafferty { Math Department, Carnegie-Mellon University }

"According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold,
and according to convention, there is an order.  In truth, there are atoms
and a void."
                -Democritus(400 B.C.)