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In article <39lstb$med@news.aero.org> helfman@aerospace.aero.org (Robert S. Helfman) writes:
>In article <39knp3$1cc@crl.crl.com> jdoskow@crl.com (Jonathan Doskow) writes:
>>Frankly, Senator Feinstein's brazen frontal assault on the Bill of
>>Rights makes this 'Nanny-Gate' business rather a piddling insignificant
>>...
>>denying law-abiding citizens the most fundamental right to defend
>>themselves from criminal assault in their own homes....
>
>The lady sponsored legislation (which, obviously, a lot of other Senators
>and Congressmen supported - it passed, you know) to ban assault weapons.
>
>Are you such a bad shot that you need an assault rifle to defend
>yourself IN your home? A simple 12-gauge will do the job just fine, and

You haven't read the "assault weapons" ban, have you?  Lots of "simple
12-gauges" are now considered ASSAULT WEAPONS and are BANNED by the
Crime Stimulus Package, such as the Benelli M1 and M3 series, the Franchi 
Law-12, the SPAS-12, ...!

>no one is trying to ban shotguns, not even the most virulent anti-gun
>partisans. 

Uh, read the Crime Bill, bub.  Your statement is utterly false.  If you
like, I'll send you the list of 326 known banned weapons (those the ATF
admits to so far).

>           You don't need an assault rifle. There is no possible reason
>for someone to keep an assault rifle in one's house, unless you're
>planning to go shoot up a MacDonald's in your neighborhood. Are you?

Oooh, nice perjorative.  Do you have a car with child seats?  Must be
planning to drown kids in them!  We'd better confiscate 'em!  


--
Alan Denney      aland@informix.com      {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland

"All they (Feinstein, Biden, etc.) are asking for in this Crime Bill
 is the elimination of *19* kinds of assault weapons, leaving 650 of them
 available!  I mean, give me a break here!  Wha-wha-what's going on?!
 We need this bill!"
           -- Marc Klaas