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Re: We love our guns!!-- was Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
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Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:46:43 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:

Given that 500,000 are stolen from lawful owners each year in the USA. >Do
you think that if more restrictions were put on ownership perhaps >less would
be stolen?

Please give up on the notion that gun supply can somehow be controlled.
There will *always* be guns, whether they are stolen from my house or
produced in a third world nation.

I think you are agreeing with me?


Anyway, the whole issue will become moot when technology gives us phasers
with "stun only" mode:-)  *Then* we can all be happy-- I'll be armed and
you'll get your 0 gun-related deaths.


It's a gun's ability to kill that makes ownership so attractive to many.

Scott A



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  Re: We love our guns!!-- was Re: Dan Rather is a Useful Idiot Extraordinare
 
(...) Please give up on the notion that gun supply can somehow be controlled. There will *always* be guns, whether they are stolen from my house or produced in a third world nation. Anyway, the whole issue will become moot when technology gives us (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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