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Re: Million Mom March
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 13 May 2000 23:27:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> Your assertion that everyone legally should have access to all weapons seems
> unworkable. Do you suggest that my neighbor and I should be able to own
> 100-megaton nuclear warheads, in case the mayor gets a little too pushy? Much
> to my surprise, I find myself in agreement with Larry (twice in one week!) and
> the man-carryable limitation.
> Certainly we should work to enforce the existing laws before penning a dozen
> volumes of new ones, but given the ease with which two local (to Pittsburgh)
> lunatics were recently able to go on shooting rampages, I don't see that
> unlimited weapons access would really do anyone any good. Granted, these two
> individuals were sick and therefore not representative of the vast majority of
> gun owners who are sane, but it was bad enough that their legal access to
> weapons allowed them to shoot about a dozen people--how much worse would it
> have been if they'd been driving around in Constitutionally-guaranteed Abrams
> tanks?
Well, whenever anyone trots out the "but there are loonies out there with guns
who shoot people" I trot out the example of the Texas McD massacre in which one
victim, who lost her father or brother, I forget, but who got off scot free,
said that she would go to her grave regretting that she wasn't carrying that
day, she'd left her piece home, and was certain she would have saved a lot of
lives by plugging the shooter post haste.
So I guess I'd say that as long as some sane citizens had their Abrams with
them that day we'd be fine. A little collateral damage, yes. :-) Ok a lot.
Remember, the sane outnumber the crazy by a wide margin.
But an Abrams isn't man portable, it takes a driver, a gunner AND a loader, I
think. Wait for the next generation of tank technology, please so you need
only a driver, before you make your christmas list up. :-)
++Lar
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