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Article #986Re: Illegal Guns (was: Re: The Montreal massacre - this date, 1989....)
From: larry soo
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 00:00
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ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) wrote: >To repeat an overused expression: your right to throw a fist ends when it >encounters my right not to have a bloody nose. Right, that's why murder is illegal, Colin. >No rights are absolute. All >rights involve tradeoffs between competing rights of individuals. My right >to travel 200 km/hr on the left side of a residential street is tempered >by society's right not to have me endangering all the other users of the >road. Your right to build a 10 storey apartment building next door to me >is tempered by my right not to have my solar panels living in your shadow >(zoning laws). Your right to carry a gun is tempered by society's right to >protect *all* of its members by minimizing the level of violence in society. What does my carrying a gun have to do with your safety? I'm not using it in a dangerous or wreckless fashion so how does it endanger you? ...lars
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f504b,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: 10ea42,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ea42,public X-Google-Thread: f7b9c,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7b9c,public X-Google-Thread: 112f74,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f74,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-Thread: 114af9,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gid114af9,public X-Google-Thread: 100c8e,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gid100c8e,public X-Google-Thread: 111b2d,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gid111b2d,public From: larry_soo@mindlink.bc.ca (larry soo) Subject: Re: Illegal Guns (was: Re: The Montreal massacre - this date, 1989....) Date: 1995/12/24 Message-ID: <4bi94s$n03@fountain.mindlink.net> X-Deja-AN: 122660971 references: <DJ6n9B.6GF@freenet.carleton.ca> <4ac7rl$qr@tomcat.sasknet.sk.ca> <4atrud$m7e@sulla.cyberstore.ca> <DJoBtp.4BJ@freenet.carleton.ca> <Roger_Walker.6z74@CUEHere.Edmonton.AB.CA> <DJtuK6.3o4@freenet.carleton.ca> organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada newsgroups: mtl.general,qc.general,can.general,ab.general,bc.general,nb.general,nf.general,ns.general,can.talk.guns