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Re: Million Mom March
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 13 May 2000 20:11:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli writes:
> Everyone knows criminals don't follow laws. Adding another will never work.
> Gun Control has nothing to do with criminals and anyone that believes it does
> is extremly ignorant. Should gun control ever be enacted only criminals (and
> those like myself who would march against Washington) would have guns. The US
> government is trying to enact Gun Control so slowly that the public in general
> doesn't relize it. The US Gun Control Act of 1968 is virtually word for word
> identical to the translated Nazi Wepons Law of 1938. Hitler used criminals as
> his scapegoat to acomplish his goals. Well we all know what happened in
> Germany. What is the US building up to?
Ignoring for a moment that this is the classic falacy of "slippery slope"
reasoning, as well as the spectre of "nazi=forfeited argument," you've made a
few compelling points. By the way, can you cite a web-reference for that
translated Nazi law and the US law? I'd like to read them and compare for
myself.
One problem is that I don't think anyone believes that criminals will follow
the new laws anymore than they follow existing ones. The purpose of these laws
in many cases is to ensure that there will be something to prosecute once a
criminal is caught. I agree obviously that this won't un-kill the criminal's
victim, but part of the hope, I think, is that the criminal will be more
readily prosecuted. Reality is, of course, less cut-and-dried.
Dave!
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| (...) 100 percent aggreed (...) Exactly. Did you guys know Sarah Brady fonder of Handgun Control Inc. was qouted some years ago as saying, "Socialist America can not be realized until those who would oppose us have been totally disarmed." Everyone (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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