Re: The Armed Citizen - Missouri

"Some Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "David Hartung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message

> > 2. how many "thugs" do you think bother to acquire their weapons
legally?
>
> No matter what is done, some bad guys will be able to get guns.
>
> What a workable registration system would do would be to make it harder
for
> the less serious criminals to get one. Drying up the supply, as it were.
> This would probably requie gun manufacturers to match their production
with
> issued permits and if production overshot, they would have to account for
> it.
>
> Knowing I will be flayed to the skeleton for saying that <g>, let me point
> out that public opinion is firmly in favor of this kind of thing. The gun
> lobby risks overplaying it's hand by digging in it's heels against
> registration.

In this case, the public is wrong, and I suspect that if the media were as
quick to come to the defense of the Second Amendment as they are the first,
the public would be singing a different tune.