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In article <DJML7v.6rF@freenet.carleton.ca>, ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) writes:
|> 
|> Rosco (Roger_Walker@CUEHere.Edmonton.AB.CA) writes:
|> > In article <4aaji9$fe7@gold.interlog.com> Tim Meehan (duke@interlog.com) 
|> > wrote:
|> >> Well he sure as hell wouldn't have caused that kind of damage *without* a 
|> >> gun...explain that one to me. 
|> > 
|> > One gallon of gasoline and a match. Any questions?
|> 
|> Yes. This approach pretty much means that:
|> 
|>    1. He can only get one group - he can't run around the building
|>       killing one person here, one person there.

No, he just selects a building that contains the people he wants to "get",
bars all exits and tosses the match.


|>    2. He's toast along with his victims.


Why ? ... because is stupid enough to lock himself inside before tossing
the match ?   Or maybe he decided to stick around and roast marshmallows.

 
|> 
|> Care to try again?

Exactly.


 
|> The problem is that you never know who's going to be a criminal until it's
|> too late. It's not much consolation to the victims' families that somebody
|> is arrested and imprisoned after the fact. A much better approach is to 
|> ban weapons *before* they kill people.

You are a piece of work, you really are.  
You talk about firearms as if they have a mind of their own
and that, if you ban them, they will go away 
and that if they did go away, nothing would replace them.

And what's this crap about imprisonment for such killers ?
You're so enraged and offended by these acts that you want to do
all sorts of irrational things that won't solve the problem yet,
you want to keep the perpetrators of these acts in comfort for life.

I guess it's because it's not their fault - that the evil guns
made them do this, right ?  
More innocent victims of guns, right ?  


|> 
|> For the record, I disagree with the harsh penalties for people who refuse
|> to register their weapons. The penalties seem to be out of all proportion
|> to the act. It would be much simpler to seize the weapons instead. This
|> not only removes the potential harm caused by their owners, but also by
|> others (eg. family members and thieves who could have access to the 
|> weapons).

The roses on _this_ planet don't smell nearly so nice.

Barry