--- Andrew Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Jan Coffey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re:_Politics,_was_[L3]_Re:_fight_the_evil_of price_discrimination
>
> >>It
> >> is
> >> my belief that there are relatively very few individual who can
> demonstrate
> >> an
> >> actual use for a personally owned gun
>
> >Every individual can demostrate a actual use for a personally owned gun.
> It
> >balances the tactical power, the threat of injury or death one individual
> can
> >have over another. Without ANY guns that power would be in the hands of
> >thowse who are larger and/or more willing to accept minor injuries...etc.
>
> >If everyone has a gun, that power is balanced.
>
> Can I ask where you stand on weapons of mass destruction?
>
> This line of arguement would suggest that Iraq was fully justified in
> wanting to have its own nukes.
> And that we have suppresed their human rights by denying access to them.
No, Iraq was a criminal state. Those rules were imposed on them becouse they
had violated the sovrenty of their niegbor. Remember we didn't invade
pakistan just becouse they have nukes.
> To carry it further, when we all have guns, do we all then upgrade to
> personal tactical nukes?
No, guns alone are sufficient to balance power.
Anicdotaly: if one finds themself in a position of being overpowered by a
criminal then the experience generaly leaves them with one of 2 opinions.
A) All guns should be illegal.
B) I should of had a gun.
Which one is more realistic.
My opinion is go a step further
C) everyone should have a gun.
Why? Becouse if that criminal knew that everyone was likely to be packing,
they would not have done what they did. Texas and Navada have it right. Make
the gun be concealed. That way no one knows who is armed and who isn't.
It proactivly fights crime. The other alternative is to be a society of victems.
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