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tom.MTS.Net> - John Timmers <john_timmers@mindlink.bc.ca> writes:
:>
:>You forgot to mention that it is also the law to register amateur radios, and
:>also necessary to get a license to operate one -- and has been the law for more
:>than fifty years.  So whats the big deal ?  I don't hear anybody spouting off
:>about infringing upon the rights of amateur radio operators; why not ?  Just
:>register your gun and shut up.
:>

Amateur radio is licensed because there is limited bandwidth for its use.  
People who haven't learned how to use the proper frequency slots for the 
type of transmitting they are doing, and the proper power level would mess 
up the highly organized radio frequency spectrum.  At that, though, they 
don't have to licence their transmitters.  I'm afraid guns are in a class 
all by themselves.  These arguments by analogy are pretty weak.  As for 
what's the big deal, you'll have to make some attempt to understand this, and 
there _is_ something there for you to understand.  Poor communicator 
that I am, I've already put out enough for someone of normal 
intelligence to figure out what the _real_ thing is that forms the core 
of resistance to universal gun registration.  Until you do understand what 
the big deal is, you'll have little luck trying to persuade me that you're 
right about anything.

:> 
:>> Just think about this -- seriously.  What kind of a country are we building
:>> if crime is fought by taking away the freedom of the innocent?  Do you want a
:>> perfect, pacific, state.  Here is some truth for you.  First - you will never
:>> get it.  Second - a nation of serfs and peasants is what you'll get if you
:>> try hard enough.
:>> 
:>>                         Tom Cohoe.
:>
:>I would prefer to be a serf or peasant who doesn't have to worry about some
:>idiot grabbing a gun and perforating me with bullets.
:>

Really!  Then it would be one idiot shooting another. :)  I bet most of the 
people on your side wouldn't say that.  I think if most of the "let's have 
universal gun registration" people thought that universal registration would 
lead to their loss of freedom, they'd drop the idea fast.  

                        Tom Cohoe.