Re: capicity for violence = less violence? [was Re: Security]

Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:25:09 -0500

Date sent:      	Tue, 01 Jun 1999 15:18:45 -0400
From:           	"Michael S. Lorrey" <mike@lorrey.com>
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To:             	extropians@extropy.com
Subject:        	Re: capicity for violence = less violence? [was Re: Security]
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> Chuck Kuecker wrote:
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> >
> > How do you feel about proposed limits on quantity purchases? I don't like
> > the idea of govt. telling me how many of an item I can buy - but again
> > can't see any legitimate reason for someone to need to buy more than one
> > gun at a time. A truly rabid collector who just came into lots of money,
> > maybe?
>
> A friend of my father and me is the VP of Sturm Ruger, Inc. His uncle has a
> collection of 25,000 guns (really). My friend is the sole beneficiary of this
> man's Will. How do you propose that my friend can inherit this collection
> legally, even though not one has ever been used in a crime, nor has my friend
> ever commited a crime, and the collection is kept in a sub-basement of a house
> that has a bank-style combination lock vault door on it???
>
Bu being of age, treating his wife and kids well if he has any, not committing violent crimes, having a responsible level IQ and not going clinically insane.
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> Mike Lorrey
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