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Subject: 
Re: National vote on handguns?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Tue, 24 Jul 2001 00:48:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Enrique Durand writes:

You are absolutely right. In fact, why stop there? Since so many crimes
involve cars (have you ever heard of a get-away bicycle), we should ban • private
ownership of cars as well. And since the right to drive is not guaranteed
anywhere in the Constitution, we don't even have to vote on it. It could just • be
decreed.

You know what?  Not all crimes involve guns.  Not all crimes involve cars.  But
ALL crimes involve brains.  If we made it illegal to possess a brain, ALL crime
would stop.  We could remove brains from children as they are born, and within
about eighty years, we'd have no more crime.  For all time!  A permanent peace
would decend on the world and our ten thousand year crime spree would finally
end.

Chris



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  Re: National vote on handguns?
 
(...) Chris brings up a good point in sarcastic kind of way; Is man capable of living in a crime free society? Think back to the story of Eden, only two people and they too committed a crime even though they were living the "perfect" life. I think (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: National vote on handguns?
 
(...) You are absolutely right. In fact, why stop there? Since so many crimes involve cars (have you ever heard of a get-away bicycle), we should ban private ownership of cars as well. And since the right to drive is not guaranteed anywhere in the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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