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Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
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Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:01:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
You are absolutely right Dave! The statistics do not show any positive or
negative one way or the other for or against gun control. The funny thing is
that only further increases my belief that gun control is all about
Government control over civilians.

   Well, okay. But in that case you need to jettison your argument that
increased gun control leads to (or causes) increased crime.

That is pretty much what I just said.

  Well, okay.  Are you hereby abandoning your previous arguments, in which
you've asserted that increased gun control breeds increased crime?  I just want
to be clear on this.

Yes, but gun control does not reduce crime either.

<snip>


-Mike Petrucelli

What it does do is reduce the number of fatalities/injuries from bullets.

Dave K



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  Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
 
(...) Lots of things can kill you -- like automobiles for example. We keep dangerous things around because they are useful -- like automobiles for example. People can be taught to use dangerous yet useful things without harm to anyone, or at least (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
 
(...) Yes, but gun control does not reduce crime either. (...) If they could stop it through sustained military action, why didn't they? (...) Then the Government must have done something really stupid (...) Make a choice? (...) Yeah I would say (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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