GS Chandy
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Hyderabad, Mumbai/Bangalore, India
Registered:
9/29/05
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Re: Would effective gun control laws be 'unacceptable social engineering'?
Posted:
Dec 16, 2012 12:46 PM
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Robert Hansen (RH) posted Dec 16, 2012 3:25 PM: > > On Dec 15, 2012, at 8:42 PM, GS Chandy > <gs_chandy@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Why not simply ban ALL private ownership of > firearms? What purpose do they serve in a lawful > world (apart from profits for their manufacturers and > dealers)? > > Maybe your barn is lawful but the world is certainly > not. > > Bob Hansen > Such carefully 'selective quotation' is quite typical of the falsehoods propagated by RH. My original asked: >> >> I wonder: Would effective gun control laws be >> considered to be "unacceptable social engineering"? >> >> [I for one would wonder why Japan even allows the >> possession of ANY firearms at all (shotguns and such >> even under its severely restrictive laws). Why not >> simply ban ALL private ownership of firearms? What >> purpose do they serve in a lawful world (apart from >> profits for their manufacturers and dealers)? >> >> [Why not work towards creating a world that is >> generally law-abiding instead of generally lawless, >> which seems to be the case today. Ah yes, would that >> be considered to be 'social engineering' by some?] >> I strongly recommend that RH (if he is 'scientifically inclined' as he touts himself to be) should take the small trouble to read one or a few of the MANY sound references available dealing with the matter of "How to Quote" - e.g.:
- -- http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QPA_quoting.html
- -- https://ilrb.cf.ac.uk/citingreferences/tutorial/quotation2.html
(There are some MMMMMillions of links available).
GSC ("Still Shoveling Away!")
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