From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 19:46:17 MST
>From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
> > > Is it not true that the
> > NRA opposes any attempt reduce the production of new guns?
>
>The federal government is not permitted to control the quantity of guns
>produced except under martial law conditions. The government does not
>make the guns, it is a private industry.
Your statement does not negate the truth of mine.
> > Is it not true
> > that the NRA is opposed to reducing the number of guns now in
>circulation?
>
>Gun buybacks have been shown to have absolutely no effect on crime. Gun
>confiscations would obviously start a civil war.
Again, your statement does not negate the truth of mine.
> > Is it not true that there are more guns in America than there are
>Americans?
>
>No there are not. There are over 250 million Americans, and between 200
>and 240 million guns.
Where do you get this statistic? What is the date of it? And even if it is
accurate, what practical difference does it make? Especially when you
consider that a fair percentage of the Americans included in the statistic
consist of children, infants, invalids, convicts and ex-convicts? Even
assuming the accuracy of your statistic, surely the number of guns far
outnumbers the number of sane, competent and law-abiding adults who are
legally permitted to own them.
> > Is it not true that the NRA sees no problem with the ratio of guns to
> > people? Please stop me when I've said something that is not true.
>
>Ok, I have stopped you. The only people who see a problem with this are
>those that think that Americans have no right to keep and bear arms.
>Such people are fascists and should be treated as such.
Again, your statement does not negate the truth of mine. Furthermore, your
statement is untrue. I think there is a problem with a country that
contains more guns than legal gun-owners. Especially when that country
compounds that problem by a complete failure to make these dangerous
instrumentalities as safe as they can practically be, and the fact that gun
owners unnecessarily enjoy more anonymity than car owners. Japan does not
allow every wacko in the country to own a gun. Does that make the Japanese
government a fascist regime?
>"The tree of liberty, from time to time, needs to be watered with the
>blood of tyrants and patriots." - Thomas Jefferson
Perhaps. But it bothers me that it is usually the 2nd Amendment hardliners
who feel that they get to do the watering.
>Isn't this fun?
Marginally.
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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