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In article <3ss5vh$1fi@portal.gmu.edu>, Bob Counts <bob@apollo.gmu.edu> wrote:
>John Grigsby (grigsby@Glue.umd.edu) wrote:
>: In article <3sf6jt$ntl@mark.ucdavis.edu>, CeRk!T <dbuki@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>: >In article <NEWTNews.28777.803947525.mghitch@ibm.net>, mghitch@ibm.net says...
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>: >>"GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, PEOPLE DO"
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>: >>We'll, let's extend that to a related analogy:  "HAMMERS DON'T BUILD HOUSES, 
>: >>PEOPLE DO".  Trouble is, you can't build many houses without hammers the same 
>: >>as you can't kill many people without guns.
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>: Not true!  You can still kill a lot of people with knives, machettes, clubs,
>: , fertilizer and oil (the ok city bombing -- which brings up the issue of
>: whether handgun control, inc. is doing anything to stop the manufacture of
>: these products, which have killed more Americans in one day than "assault"
>: weapons have in all of our history) --- and hammers!  
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>: It sure is fun dueling with a one-armed bandit, but sometimes I'd like a 
>: bit more of a challenge!
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>: -John
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>I say that both of you are using old, old, OLD, repeated arguements only because
>you are probably not insightful or creative or unbiased enough to realize that the problem
>goes beyond the arguements of:
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>	"Guns don't kill people, people do"
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>	"waiting periods save lives"
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>Nobody will ever change their mind if their mind is set in advance, 
>like it seems everyone's is in this thread.  Argueing about it won't work.
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