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From: jimi@SCINEWS.UUCP ()
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Subject: Re: The right to be a lethal danger
Message-ID: <107@SCINEWS.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 13:20:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 13:20:50 1985
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> In article <1157@ihuxe.UUCP> chas@ihuxe.UUCP (Charles Lambert) writes:
> >Yesterday, in St. John, Indiana, another lunatic with the "right to bear
> >arms" ran amok with an automatic firearm, killing three people in or
> >around a K-Mart store and critically injuring several more.
> >
> >And still the gun-lobby postures and pontificates about the "freedom of
> >the indivdual".
> >
> >Your "freedom" to easily acquire a lethal-projectile weapon is placing
> >the ability to kill with irresistible ease in the hands of anyone with a
> >grudge.
>
>
> Oh c'mon! Let's not get back into the old abused argument that if one
> person abuses a priviledge, then everyone should lose it. That sounds
> like some of the shit we got in high school where if one guy screwed
> up everyone got to run another 10 laps..
> 
> Besides, this 'lunatic' scarcely seemed like someone with a 'grudge'.
> 
> This has been said a hundred times, and I'll say it again. Outlawing
> guns is not going to put them out of reach. There are too many. If
> you're anti-gun, your battle was lost 30 years ago! I can think of
> quite a few ways of obtaining a gun black-market, and I don't
> even run in those circles.
> 
> P.S. Are you sure that it was an 'automatic' weapon?
> If so, then you're barking up the wrong tree. Full auto weapons
> have been illegal for a long time. (Sure, everyone can become a class III
> dealer).. If so, your lunatic got it illegally, completely out of reach
> of any laws.
> -- 
> 			Jordan K. Hubbard
> 			@ Genstar Rental Electronics.
> 			Palo Alto, CA.
> 			{pesnta, decwrl, dual, pyramid}!greipa!jordan
> 
> 			"Ack ack!".
> 
> 				- William the feline

Guns don't kill people, bullets kill people.

Jim Ingram {decvax,akgua}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!jimi