Re: Gun Registry- BLIND supporters? (Searchs)

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From: n g
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 06:15

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> >>
> >> > That there are bad people who do not act in a
> >> > responsible manner is no justification for infringing
> >> > upon the rights of those who do.
> >>
> >> But it is. If you had the intelligence to understand the
> >> Tragedy of the Commons, you'd know why.
> >
> > But it is not. Never has been, never will be. The tragedy
> > of the commons notwithstanding. No amount of law will ever
> > reign in the lawless.
>
> I'll ignore your tautology and point out that the number of
> Florida children injured or killed in accidental shootings
> dropped dramatically after the state passed a stringent Child
> Access Prevention law.  The same effect has not been observed
> in states where CAP laws only made it a misdemeanor instead
> of a felony.
>

But we already have equivelents to those laws in place. Long before this
fiasco.

>
>
> > Corruption of personal rights, freedoms, and liberties
> > leads only to the enslavement of the populous under the
> > yoke of popular opinion.
>
> Yadda, yadda, yadda.  That's a bunch of Ayn Rand claptrap.

Perhaps. But this is an excellent example of where that could lead isn't it?
I dislike expressions like "thin edge of the wedge" but that is exactly what
this is. Where does it end? How about by fighting and killing this senseless
act! Now that would be a freedom to celebrate.

>
>
> ......

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