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sol <solomon@angband.org> wrote in message
news:8d57f5$b8r$1@news-int.gatech.edu...
> If we had to wait until somebody did something illegal before we could
> legislate their actions, there would be _no_ law in the first place!

I think I might prefer that to our current state of too much law. You
can always defend yourself in a state of anarchy, but now, with the new
push for gun control (along with various other fascist measures), the
government is trying to deny us even that right.

In any case, I believe the point Marvin was trying to make (or should
have been trying to make), is that ownership of a gun by an
eight-year-old does not infringe on anybody's right to life, liberty,
and property. Perhaps an eight-year-old does not need to have access to
firearms, but, unless it can be demonstrated that his having that access
is a threat to the life, liberty, and property of others, whether or not
he has it is neither my business, nor yours, nor the government's.

Despite the attempts of the anti-gun movement to portray gun owners as
rednecks with sixth-grade educations (who'd have thought that
*Democrats* would resort to inaccurate ad hominem arguments?), the
majority of gun owners (especially the ones who give their children guns
at young ages) are responsible, intelligent people who understand the
danger which guns can pose in the hands of those who do not know how to
use them. This is reflected in the attitude and behavior of their
children with regard to guns.

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Armed people are free. No state can control those who have
the machinery and the will to resist; no mob can take their
liberty and property. --L. Neil Smith