Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!ken From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Gun Control again... A Position Paper Message-ID: <1128@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 17:17:31 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxq.1128 Posted: Fri Aug 10 17:17:31 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 01:09:21 EDT References: <1565@sun.uucp>, <1076@hou4b.UUCP>, <1117@ihuxq.UUCP>, <379@loral.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 39 -- >> >[from Royko's column] >> > >> > 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... >> 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! >> Ray Simard I am indeed serious, though I agree with you about the ineffectiveness of gun-control legislation. What burns me up is the "I gotta have a gun" frontier mentality in America. It's shared by certain classes of criminals and, of course, the law-abiding gun nuts. America is arming itself. A lot of this is our peculiar quick-fix mentality: Feel insecure? unsafe? Buy a gun. No matter that it is often the case that the gun makes you significantly less safe. I have no quarrel with your right to own a gun, not even one whose only purpose is killing people at close range. I would, however, question your motives for doing so. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 10 Aug 84 [23 Thermidor An CXCII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7261 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***