Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site loral.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdccs6!loral!simard From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Gun Control again... A Position Paper Message-ID: <379@loral.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 16:39:55 EDT Article-I.D.: loral.379 Posted: Wed Aug 8 16:39:55 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 02:32:44 EDT References: <1565@sun.uucp>, <1076@hou4b.UUCP>, <1117@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA Lines: 50 [Call line-eaters anonymous, (906) 555-1212] 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! -- [ ] [ I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet ] [ ] Ray Simard Loral Instrumentation, San Diego {ucbvax, ittvax!dcdwest}!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!loral!simard