Re: 40 REASONS TO SUPPORT GUN CONTROL

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:15:52 -0000, in a fit of unbridled digital verbosity,
once again proving the problem is located between the seat and the keyboard,
"Bill Weston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> two-fingered to all:

|>Anson Macdonald wrote:
|>> DE781 wrote:
|>>
|>>> God damn!  I'm vehemently anti-gun, but you're just biased.  I can't
|>>> deny that the chick has some points that need studying and
|>>> controlling.  IMO, gun control definitely intially INCREASES the
|>>> amount of violent crimes.  However, if total, global gun control is
|>>> done gradually, over centuries of time, I believe the statistics will
|>>> inevitable finally fall lower than they've ever been, as guns are all
|>>> either nonexistent or antiques.
|>>
|>> You're not an average gun prohibitionist, I'll grant you that.  Most
|>> aren't that patient.  And since you're taking a centuries-long view,
|>> that implies you would tolerate DECADES of increased misery due to
|>> "gun control definitely initially INCREAS[ing] the amount of violent
|>> crimes."
|>>
|>> Of course, that's assuming that many, many governments and
|>> administrations would stay in power continuously over the course of
|>> centuries to implement your "final solution" to gun crime.  I'll think
|>> I'll just nickname it the Fourth Reich, for short.
|>
|>I really can't understand why people who don't live in America care whether
|>Americans are allowed to carry guns or not.
|>
|>Personally as a Englishman I find the American obsession with handguns a
|>little childish though as I own a shotgun and a Mk4 .303 Enfield rifle I can
|>hardly be called anti-gun, but if you're not American let them get on with
|>it.
|>
|>I spend a lot of time in the US on business and am very grateful when I
|>return home to the freedom that is a largely unarmed police force, but that
|>doesn't give me the right to tell other countries what to do.

You tell 'em, Bill!


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