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In article <donbC4o9wI.5J0@netcom.com>, donb@netcom.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
> In article <1993Mar29.200010.19919@clsi.COM> kevin@clsi.com writes:
> >> >Handguns cause billions of dollars in damage every year by making
> >> >murder and blood easy. 
> >> 
> >> First off, I'd say your logic is flawed...handguns don't cause that
> >> violence.
> >
> >He didn't mention violence.
> 
> Murder isn't violence? :)

From Webster's dictionary.

Murder:   1. to kill (a human being) unlawfully and with premeditated malice
          2. to slaughter in a brutal manner

Violence: 1. exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse
          2. injury by or as if by distortion, infringement, or profanation

=> murder need not be violent.

> I'll be the first to admit that deadly weapons are a mixed blessing.  Yet,
> somehow, the media don't report the good side of it.  For instance, they
> were all over that restaurant in Texas, where the jerk shot all those
> people (Luby's?).  But you didn't hear a WORD a couple months later, when
> a customer with a license to carry in Alabama saved about 20 people from
> armed robbers...

The armed robbers may not have hurt anyone anyway.

> >So I suppose it's OK for every psychopath to have a gun as long he promises to
> >be good ?
> 
> No.  I support existing laws that prohibit the insane from owning guns.  I
> do think the current waiting periods should be replaced with an instant
> check, by states that currently have waiting periods.

You may not find out he is insane until he uses the gun. Most of the people who
have "gone crazy" with guns would have been considered (clinically) sane.

> >What gives YOU the right to say everyone should have easy access to the tools
> >to kill anybody they don't like ?
> 
> On the contrary, I think that anyone who abuses their firearms rights
> should be dealt with VERY sternly.

- but not prevented.

> Or would you treat such a criminal as a desperate victim of society? :)

Some are.

Kev.

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