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Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
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Mon, 17 May 1999 21:45:33 GMT
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Duane Hess <DNJHESS@ZDNETMAIL.COM> wrote:
The big reason I see some value in gun licensing is that education could
become a part of the requirement to own a gun which would tremendously
increase the percentage of gun owners who are responsible.

That is my hope, belief, and aim.

Steve

This may be some common ground where we can all agree.

I can agree with the thought.  Never safe to assume that the losers
who end up making up the regulations and nit-picky junk would actually
create a program that would be effective.

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  Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
 
(...) True. In which case, it would be time to change the legislation. But, I think training which is mostly ineffective is still better than no training. Maybe I've been watching too much TV (entirely likely), but I have these mental images of (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
 
(...) I can only hope that anyone who holds a gun has the same feelings that I do. I have enough experience with guns (at least rifles and a few different types of handgun) that I am confident in my own abilities to use one if need be, but it still (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
 
(...) Debatable, I guess. The "training" that they require in TN, at least as administered here in Knox county, is laughable. The written test is practically answered question by question by the instructor. The firing test is about as hard as it (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  A summation? (was Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
 
<slrn7k3ois.1dt.cjc@...S.UTK.EDU> <FBy91u.K5w@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) You came late but your statement above is the crux of the debate. A lot of people do not buy this link, do (...) (25 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: A summation? (was Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
 
<37421ED7.8F4BB887@voyager.net> <FBzGnp.L04@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Ya, me too. A debate is different than an argument! In formal debating the goal is to convince the bystanders, (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: A summation? (was Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
 
<37421ED7.8F4BB887@voyager.net> <FC01x0.2AH@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Who? I am not "gun crazy", whatever that means, but I own a handgun, am trained in its effective use(1), am (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: A summation? (was Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
 
On Wed, 19 May 1999 13:55:11 GMT, Christopher L. Weeks uttered the following profundities... (...) Because to some (not necessarily me, I am not stating my true beliefs until I have read all posts), gun ownership can restrict freedom. By which I (...) (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: A summation? (was Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
 
On Wed, 19 May 1999 14:09:25 GMT, Duane Hess uttered the following profundities... (...) Was I challenging them? Wishing to understand them? Trolling you? (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Trolling etc. (was: Re: A summation? (was Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page))
 
<MPG.11bcd21f4c15bcb...ugnet.com> <FCnK1r.I33@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) This reminds me of the bone-head required English writing class that I had to take for my college degree in (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
 
(...) This may be some common ground where we can all agree. Duane (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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