Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: re: another twist on the gun issue Message-ID: <222@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 16:45:27 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.222 Posted: Thu Feb 7 16:45:27 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 04:05:50 EST Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 60 Xref: watmath net.flame:8286 net.politics:7509 >From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) >Subject: another twist on the gun issue >Message-ID: <220@ttidcc.UUCP> Adrienne, you disappoint me. Not only are your facts incorrect, but you had to shout your misinformation in caps. {sigh} I don't suppose you read the article I posted to net.politics earlier containing the known facts about the Constitution and the 2nd amendment? Probably everyone else has, so I won't repost for now. Come by my office and I'll show you the original. One other thing. Before I'm flamed by all and sundry, let me say it again: I AM NOT TAKING A POSITION ON GUN CONTROL IN THIS POSTING. Ahem ... >The real flap over gun control is that EVERY TIME WEAPONS HAVE BEEN >REGISTERED, GOVERMENT HAS EVENTUALLY CONFISCATED THE WEAPONS. ... Not true. As has been frequently mentioned in this argument, guns are registered in Great Britain, for example, and nobody's confiscated them yet. (I know you've heard that before. Slip your mind, did it?) > ... If you want some social seal >of approval for people who do have weapons (to keep them out of the "wrong >hands") why not license the people, whether or not they own/carry a gun? >Every upstanding citizen over 16 is licensed to carry, like driving a car. >Whether they choose to do so or not is their own business. When you catch >a crook with a weapon you jail him and (for first time offenders) revoke We don't do this with cars. In most states getting a driver's license requires passing a written and practical test. In California, you can't drive under the age of 18 unless you've passed a driver education course in school. The same is true in many other states and driver's ed. is frequently made a requirement for highschool graduation. Note that cars are generally classified as deadly weapons under the law. Just you try suggesting to an anti-gun-control type that they should have to take a test to get a license to own a gun (hint: wear your kevlar vest when you do). Besides, cars are registered in all states. If we're going to treat guns like cars ... what was that about apples and oranges? So far the gun-control debate has generated much heat and little light that I've noticed. I expect it will continue to do so as long as people want simplistic, black-or-white answers to complex problems. Again, please note: I HAVE NOT TAKEN A POSITION ON GUN CONTROL IN THIS POSTING. -- ============================================================================== The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp TTI If thy CRT offend thee, pluck 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. it out and cast it from thee. Santa Monica, California 90405 (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {vortex,philabs}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe