🚀 go-pugleaf

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

In article <30D73A86.30D1FA55@mindlink.bc.ca> John Timmers 
(john_timmers@mindlink.bc.ca) wrote:

> I suppose the law is a _bit_ more strict for fire-arms than for ham-radios 
> for the following reason (there are others, but lets start with this one) :

> I can't put a bullet in my radio, point it at somebody and pull a trigger to
> end a life.  Even if I start acting _really_ irresponsibly with my radio, I
> would still find it extremely difficult to physically harm anybody.  Can you
> say that about fire-arms?

Firearms, like ham radios, are "good" or "bad" ONLY in how they are used by
INDIVIDUALS. A firearm under my control, will not harm anyone, unless I
decide to take the necessary actions.

Ham radios serve a sometimes useful purpose, but are often a form of
recreation which harms no one; occasionally they are abused. The same can be
said about firearms.

A simple glance at a chart of "death by" will show you that death by
firearms is way at the bottom (I believe on a par with death by lightning).
This indicates that it is not worth the effort and agravation, not to
mention the cost, time, and loss of freedom.

After all, if you really wanted to save lives by banning ownership and use
of personal property, you would have far better results taking away
everyone's vehicles (about 10 times as many deaths would stop). It would be
easier to enforce, too, because vehicles are so much more difficult to
hide.

I have always found people who support restricting responsible use of
firearms to be either hopolophobic, ignorant, bigotted, or totalitarian. In
some cases, more than one of those attributes apply.

The cure for unreasonable fear and ignorance is education, and the
successive polls have shown a steady drop in support for C-68, which shows
that education works.

Bigottry and totalitarianism are much more difficult to deal with,
particularly in combination with unreasonable fear and ignorance, because
one set of attributes serves to reinforce the other set.

- -- 
               SysOp, CUE Here BBS  (403) 465-7715
                 Roger_Walker@CUEHere.bohica.net
               Roger_Walker@CUEHere.Edmonton.AB.CA

    PGP Public Key from:  Roger_Walker_PGP@CUEHere.Edmonton.AB.CA


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2

iQEVAwUBMN16k6Z872JZyB+1AQGKzAf/RbCpzDVMKPBi2jkS7TyA6MBzsEbhFRxK
cd2z7zFUvcz3XkZetR6jBO3B/UculYP16i6y0yvyrHYolhaIJtm+q4xEJ9Q9Af2F
uLD+GgvC6APP4k5wVhjq9Eqaks2xxbA0PBzWH+SFZaFL8cnWpKsW1SVGt70s5qPJ
R7vCzMf6xoPJYU/kdo1Dat48HIU6RSIz7teiVKJkTKg1bE5Nw3YqIVsPN73mfZjR
8PSipdDPpV6rkbrELz6i/6ycOmcNRotE0pe2oltl8jxpHUkdz4Ue2iyhDvgsGdes
Teo9fkWo03Nm8rgpyuKAxVaGPQSYhX/eShYoMFT9NT1Q0eVRV12RGQ==
=igQL
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----