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Re: Would effective gun control laws be 'unacceptable social engineering'?
Posted:
Dec 17, 2012 2:11 AM
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Regrettably, I believe Rob, Jeff & Wayne reflect the common American's
position: in the same way that the price of being Scandinavian is high
taxes; the price of being Haitian is poverty etc, the price of being
American is acceptance of violence.
I doubt that anything will really change after the vigils, candles &
hand-wringing is over.
Gary Tupper
On 12/16/2012 8:23 PM, Robert Hansen wrote:
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> On Dec 16, 2012, at 9:36 PM, Jeff Bishop <Jeff@Bishop.NET
> <mailto:Jeff@Bishop.NET>> wrote:
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>> I agree with all of my dad's points, save one. Restrictions on
>> nuclear weapons are, in my opinion, not infringements. For one
>> thing, nukes are not weapons individuals can bear, so they are
>> arguably not "arms" within the meaning of the Second Amendment.
>
> I don't think explosives was ever a consideration though ammunition
> does require powder. In my opinion, arms obviously meant guns and has
> always meant guns.
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> People think this is new. Sadly, it isn't. In 1937 a monster every bit
> the equal to this one blew up an elementary school in Bath Michigan,
> killing 38 children.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
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> In Japan and China they use knives.
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> If it isn't guns, bombs, knives or poison then these monsters just use
> their bare hands and strangle them, one at a time.
>
> Obama spoke tonight...
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> "We can't accept events like this as routine. Are we really prepared
> to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage?" Obama said.
> That the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such
> violence visited on our children year, after year, after year is
> somehow the price of our freedom?"
>
> Yeah, unfortunately, this is the price we pay for freedom. We can't
> even keep gang members off the street. How the hell are we going to
> put enough "odd" people under surveillance just hoping to stop the
> rarest of sickos like this monster?
>
> Considering the number of gun deaths in Illinois, I wasn't even aware
> they had a ban on guns. More people are murdered in Chicago, with
> guns, than troops dying in Afghanistan. A lot more. What kind of gun
> ban is that?
>
> Just like education, if we want to understand how other countries
> achieve lower murder rates (there actually isn't that many of them)
> then go examine them to see how they achieve lower murder rates. I
> don't think it hinges on a lack of guns, though I could see the lack
> of interest in guns (in those countries) hinging on not being worried
> as much about being killed.
>
> Bob Hansen
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