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Re: New Web Page
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Mon, 17 May 1999 16:50:18 GMT
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LPIEN@CTPihatespam.IWANTNOSPAM.COM
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James Brown wrote:
> I know my logic is a bit faulty (it's late, and I'm tired), but the fact
> remains that you need a firearm for protection, and I need a baseball bat. An
> invasion of your home would likely involve a fatality, an invasion of mine
> would likely not.
It doesn't bother me much when the fatality is the invader. What DOES
bother me in your (contrived (1)) scenario is all the little old ladies
clubbed to death with baseball bats because they can't swing a big stick
as well as a 6'2" 240 pound criminal.
You need a firearm for protection too, you just don't know it. Guns are
an equalizer. They let the oppressed, downtrodden, weaker masses compete
on an even footing with thugs, whether muscular amateurs or jackbooted
professionals.
1 - contrived because of this homily: "When guns are outlawed, only
outlaws will have guns". Trite but irrefutable until someone invents a
magic wand to erase the very knowledge of them from our collective mind.
Gun control reduces the number of guns among the honest. That's it.
Review Prohibition or the failed Drug War if you still don't grasp this
simple concept.
If you want people not to use a particular tool, change society so that
the tool doesn't add value, because you CANNOT legislate the tool out of
existance.
--
Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
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| (...) But the odds are as much in favor of the fatality being mine as anyone elses. If I'm involved in a violent crime, I would simply rather the chance of a fatality was slim or none. (...) Hm. I'm sorry, but the number of little old ladies who get (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I've been trying to stay away from this thread, but I can't just let this slide by. I do not want to own a gun, but if I lived in an area where guns were commonly available (as in your suggestion above), I would likely need to get one. Why? (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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