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Re: Protect the easily offended:ban everything!
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Date: 
Tue, 24 Jul 2001 07:16:51 GMT
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What is the purpose behind firearms?

1. To threat someone/protect yourself
2. To wound someone/protect yourself
3. To kill someone/protect yourself

Are there others?

/J

"Harvey Henkelman" <HarveyHenkelman@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:GGys8r.M09@lugnet.com...
Just as people sue Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Colt- we should be able
to sue Ford and GM for hit-and-run accidents (vehicular homicide) in that
the make of the car driven by the offender should be brought into • question.
It's not the gun that kills, it's the person who pulls the trigger. A • person
can just as easily attack and kill someone with a sharpened pencil if they
so choose. And lets not forget knives, do you think the banning of • firearms
will bring about the end of hold-ups at the local mini-mart? If I were a
criminal, I would be more afraid to victimize a society in which the law
required people to carry firearms. -Harvey



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  Protect the easily offended:ban everything!
 
Just as people sue Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Colt- we should be able to sue Ford and GM for hit-and-run accidents (vehicular homicide) in that the make of the car driven by the offender should be brought into question. It's not the gun that (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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