Date sent: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:25:25 -0800
From: Anton Sherwood <bronto@pobox.com>
Organization: That would be telling.
To: extropians@extropy.com
Subject: Re: Sticks and Stones and Bullets, Oh, My!
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> Look, Joe, I know you mean well, but can you show us ONE example of a
> place where gun control did any lasting good? ONE place where the crime
> rate declined AFTER gun control, and remained low?
>
> Can you show us any reason not to assume that a law designed ostensibly
> to disarm "criminal types" (I'll bet you can tell them at a glance,
> can't you?) won't be used later to disarm people who criticize the
> ruling party?
>
> (In Germany, gun control was introduced to prevent street battles
> between Communists and Nazis. Fat lot of good it did. But the Nazis
> later found the registration lists convenient.)
>
> Finally, can you tell us the definition of "fascist"?
>
In Germany, the brownshirts used intimidation to gain, and then
maintain, control. The Nazis gained control by means of a
combination of physical, intimidation, the bemoaning of their
nation's self-imposed condition (see WW I), and the delusional
promise to the people that a self-destructive and brutally genocidal
solution would change things for the better. Luddites are defined
as those who contend that because something has never been
done, that it shouldn't be tried. Are you just another Luddite,
fearing that a failed experiment cannot be repealed, or do you
possess ths courage and daring to chance possible solutions, and
let subsequent experience testify for itself, trusting in the
democratic process to be self-correcting?
>
> --
> Anton Sherwood *\\* br0nt0@p0b0x.com *\\* http://www.jps.net/antons/
>
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