Re: 40 REASONS TO SUPPORT GUN CONTROL

"Bill Weston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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.

What is "chidish" about owning a handgun (or any gun/ tool)?  Pleae explain.
It is just another tool.
>
> 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.

If you grateful about not worrying (is this your freedom,, not worrying?)
about being involved in a gun related crime because there are fewer guns in
England and want to be concerned more about being
mugged/robbed/knifed/beaten/assaulted/whatever with another sort of
weapon,,, then good for you. You are in the right place.

The US police are armed, but they are not there to protect the citizens 24/7
anywhere,/anyplace.  I doubt that Englands police are any different
(protection 24/7). I don't know how a person can feel fuzzy and safe in this
case. But oh well, if you are happy about  it,  then I have no complaint.


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> --
> Julian
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