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Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
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Date: 
Fri, 28 Feb 2003 03:07:09 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:


*aproximately

And I agree that there will always be those that want to break the law, or
use a weapon in a moment of passion--I admitted that I'm torn when it comes
to me, a gun, and Paul Bernardo (my ethics would prevent me from doing harm
to him in the final analysis).

So you want the state to protect you from yourself and your weak will then?
Is that it? I'm going to campaign to outlaw hot fudge, after all, some
people can't resist it.

Less access to guns = less gun related violence is what I'm advocating.

It might be what you're advocating, it just doesn't happen to be true.

It's a cyclical arguement--if the bad guys have guns, then we, the private
citizens should have guns to combat the bad guys--the problem is,
statistically, the more guns we, the private citizens have, the better
chance the bad guys have at getting guns--compounded with that is that age
old problem of family members shooting family members.

c /problem/canard/

What I want is a complete pipe dream, I know, but I never said i wasn't a
dreamer, and as yet, I haven't heard any reason why my 'dream' is not better
for society than what we have today.

You're not listening, that's all.



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  Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
 
(...) Hit fudge hasn't killed anybody, that I recall-I could be wrong. Ask a father what he wants done to the criminal who had just raped and killed his daughter. Weak willed? I don't think so--I'm just glad that laws are supposedly made by rational (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
 
(...) And I agree that there will always be those that want to break the law, or use a weapon in a moment of passion--I admitted that I'm torn when it comes to me, a gun, and Paul Bernardo (my ethics would prevent me from doing harm to him in the (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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