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rsutc@twu.ca (Rick Sutcliffe) writes:

> In article <3T0qVc3w165w@aroga.wimsey.com>, pook@aroga.wimsey.com (Jim
> Pook) wrote:
> 
> > How Public Opinion Polls Mislead Politicians
> > Comments Made at the Fed Up Rally, Parliament Hill
> > September 22, 1994
> > H. Taylor Buckner
> >  
> <<lots of interesting stuff deleted>>
> 
> I wonder if the pro gun lobby would care to try their hand at writing gun
> control legislation that would recognize their hobby and yet improve the
> liklihood of assault victims surviving because there were fewer deadly
> weapons with which to conduct attacks available to the less responsible. 
> After all, it may be people rather than guns that kill, but it is a heck
> of a lot easier to kill someone with a gun than without one.
> 
> What would the gun hobbiests accept?  No controls at all?  Better ones? 
> What would they consider better?
> 
> Rick
> 
> -- 
> Rick Sutcliffe    Assoc. Prof. Computing/Math   Trinity Western University
> Canadian Chair, WG13. Not an official spokesperson for TWU or WG13

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Yes, I would love to take up that challenge. 

I think I could come up with some good rules for gun owners. For 
instance, I would do away with silly laws that restrict semi-automatic 
centerfire rifles, magazine size limits, etc.

I would allow full-automatic firearms to people trained and authorised to 
use them. I would allow handguns to be used for hunting.

I would require a national training standard and licencing of people who 
wish to use firearms - much like a drivers licence. To be renewed every 5 
years.

Use a gun in a crime (such as robbery, murder, assault, etc.), lose your 
right to own and use a firearm for minimum 5 years - max. life.

I would provide for national educaution of ALL people with respect to 
firearms.

That's just off the top of my head - pay me to sit down and come up with 
new laws that the government will put in place and I'm sure I can come up 
with much more common sense rules for gun owners and gun abusers.

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