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Subject:	Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:43:06 GMT
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We live in a society, and as such, if we wish to remain in it, we agree to follow its rules. As regards a license vice a permit, that is semantics and I don’t want to go there- as far as I am concerned, as long as it can be revoked, then it is fine. If you get charged with using your guns for holding up banks, or old ladies on the street corner, then they can take the (paperwork) away, and your guns too. You’ve forfited your “right” to ownership due to your irresponsibility with them.

Do you honestly beleive that a criminal is using a registered gun in the first place? By the way, just a little history for you: Registered gun oweners were the first group of Jews rounded up by the Nazis. By the time they realized what was happening and could have fought back, most of the gun owners were already in concentration camps.

The greatest threat to freedom is not from the occasional random crazy individual (which one is never going to stop anyway) as you seem to think, but from those that make and enforce the so called “laws.” I don’t trust a police officer to have a gun anymore than I trust your average person off the street. If I have one too, then at least we are on equal terms. As far as an F-16 dropping a cluster bomb on my house, well if several million people didn’t start shooting politicians for that, I would be very surprised. That’s why they won’t do that.

-Mike Petrucelli

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		Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
(...) You ask any politician--"Hey Mr. 'We voted you in', do you worry that when you make bad decisions in office you will probably get shot because of your bad decisions?" I think Mr Politician is more worried about his walking around in (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

		Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
(...) No, by definition a criminal is exactly that. However, see the hammer argument, and the fact that the majority of murders are committed by people who KNOW each other. And Alcohol is often a factor...it's harder to kill someone with a set of (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: Swift was Right! (He just named the wrong people...)
(...) Ah, yes. But you are in the minority, at least as far as some countries go. (example being Canada). You do follow the law with regards to your car right? I assume (if you drive, not sure that you do, since I don't), that you have a license, (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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