From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 14:44:34 MDT
Joe Dees wrote:
> Minors are, inded, minor, and unless they have been legally emancipated, possess, and SHOULD possess, both less rights and less responsibilities. Do you want infants driving?
Minors do, in fact, drive cars, tractors, and legally operate machinery that is at least as dangerous as things like firearms. They also handle firearms quite safely in great multitudes when trained in their responsible use (far safer than minors handle a
utomobiles who are also trained in their responsible use). Do you think people shouldn't drive cars prior to age 21?
> As people age and, we hope, mature, they should be gradually given more of both correlatively. People who have proven themselves not to be able to responsibly employ certain rights the irresponsible exercise of which may cause harm to themselves or ot
hers cannot be granted the free exercise of those rights, for their own sakes and for the sakes of those around them. As far a 'black on a sunny day', the preemptive refutation to that slanderous canard is found in my definition of social liberal above,
and as far as what a person thinks, that is up to the person; it is what a person DOES that should decide whether they are responsible enough to safely exercise certain potentially injurious rights around others.
Oddly enough, though, the overwhelming majority of felony convictions are against blacks with inadequate legal representation on evidence that would typically be dismissed if used against a white defendant, thus, the 'black on a sunny day' label sticks. M
oreover, all firearms regulations preceding WWI at state levels were passed by Democrats in Democrat controlled districts and were written specifically to make it far more difficult for a black person to own and carry firearms than a white person.
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> Still trying after the ban, ayy, Mikey?
a) there is no ban
b) there is no ban, and
c) there is no ban
Additionally, you might note that it was you who was bounced, not me.
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