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Guns, guns, guns (was: Re: New Web Page)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 14 May 1999 17:28:16 GMT
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c576653@cclabs.missouri.edu+saynotospam+
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Steve Bliss wrote:
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> There's already several sources of information about who owns various
> non-lethal pieces of property. Houses, cars, businesses. The government
> knows about the cars I own from at least two different sources already: the
> title and the registration. Heck, they even know I drive a car, because
> I've got my drivers license.
A) Many of us consider this a bad thing.
B) Those on the gun-control side of things typically espouse a
significant (but faulty) difference between guns and cars in that guns
are intentionally dangerous. I am constantly frustrated by this, but
now I get to use it too :-) Because the purpose of the right to own
military-grade ordinance it is more important that the government not be
allowed to keep track of who owns what.
> On Thu, 13 May 1999 16:43:19 GMT, Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
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> > An option I could see possibly working is having organizations certified
> > to issue gun licences, but not allow the government access to their
> > lists of licensees. They organizations would be required to periodically
> > verify that their licensees have not appeared on a list of convicted
> > felons and thus be inelligible for gun ownership. I still think this
> > would be an intrusion and not work well, and be subject to abuse.
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> I'd rather have an under-funded government organization. It's much harder
> to get any useful information from un-empowered civil servants than from
> any other type of organization.
What about the fact that when the second says "the right of the people
to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" it doesn't limit it to
non-felons? If felons can't own guns, and the gubmint wants to disarm
the populace, why not just make them all (or even just the target leader
types) felons? Felons, whether you like it or not are part of "the
people" and thus have all rights of citizenship while not under the
stewardship of the government as a penalty for committing a crime. When
their time is up, they should come back as one of us, and if they're not
ready for that responsibility, then their time shouldn't be up.
--
Sincerely,
Christopher L. Weeks
central Missouri, USA
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