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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Gun Control again... A Position Paper
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Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 16:39:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  8 16:39:55 1984
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Ken Perlow:

>Mike Royko's columns in the Chicago Tribune are occasionally
>dedicated to letters from readers followed by his comments.
>This is from today's (8/6):
>
>    James Stevens, New Orleans:  When you were mugged,
>    did you wish that you had a gun to protect yourself
>    and your property?  Or were you thinking about those
>    pooooor misguided criminals who don't know right
>    from wrong and need your money to buy food.  Try
>    and be honest just this one time.
>
>    Comment:  No, I didn't wish I had a gun.  But I kind
>    of wished that the stick-up man didn't have one.
>    That's usually the problem, if you hadn't noticed.

	Ken, we have noticed.  The above exemplifies the problem
with this debate.  Gun control advocates continue to cling to the
absolute myth that laws can keep guns out of the hands of such
as the mugger above.

You can bank on this: that gun control will do the following to keep
guns out of the hands of muggers, armed robbers, etc:

0
Zero
Zilch
nothing
nada

	Why in the world would anyone believe that the person who
mugged the interviewee in the above would be willing to perpetrate
such a crime, but be restrained by a law that makes his gun illegal???

You can't be serious!



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Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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