From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 01:44:12 MST
"Joe E. Dees" wrote:
> .... Luddites are defined
> as those who contend that because something has never been
> done, that it shouldn't be tried.
Gun control HAS been tried, abundantly. I notice you didn't answer my
request for an example of a place where it hasn't failed.
> 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 fearing that a failed experiment cannot be repealed, or do you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?
No, I do not possess the courage and daring to play games of chance with
other people's lives and liberties, in defiance of all experience.
Nor am I convinced that "the democratic process" still exists. The last
time it admitted a major error and reversed it, instead of ratcheting up
enforcement and explaining that we need to throw away another piece of
the Bill of Rights, was Amendment XXI (1933).
Or did somebody call off the War On Minority Drugs, outlaw civil
forfeiture, repeal the minimum wage and privatize Socialist Security
while I wasn't looking?
-- Anton Sherwood *\\* br0nt0@p0b0x.com *\\* http://www.jps.net/antons/
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