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Re: Illegal Guns (was: Re: The Montreal massacre - this date, 1989....)

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From: Barry Glasgow
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <DJoB9K.324@freenet.carleton.ca>, ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) writes:
|> In a previous message, somebody who doesn't even have the guts to sign his
|> own name, Orion (orion@unix.infoserve.net) wrote:
|> >   Not one person has been able to point out how gun registration in 
|> > Canada will make it any tougher for *criminals* to get guns; 
|> 
|> If nothing else, restricting the availability of guns will help limit
|> their use in domestic violence and domestic accidents.

Registration is does not restrict availability.
It may have the illusion of this for less intuitive people like yourself
who must rely on government to think for you.


|> However, it is
|> clear that every little step towards making them harder to obtain *will*
|> have some small impact on their usage, despite the protestations of people
|> like yourself. 

.... who know the irony in your use of the word "gutless" at the start
of your post.

Those who clamour for registration while denying the real goal of
prohibition are indeed gutless.  Trying to reverse this on those
who rightly protest the legislation, exposes the depths to which
the gutless will sink.

Barry
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From: glasgow@bnr.ca (Barry Glasgow)
Subject: Re: Illegal Guns (was: Re: The Montreal massacre - this date, 1989....)
Date: 1995/12/19
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