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Barry Glasgow (glasgow@bnr.ca) wrote:

: No.   YOU shut up.
: How many times do you have to register your ham radio ?  (Not at all)
: Do you register every radio you buy ?
: Do you have to sign statements that you are not going through problems
: in your relationship or failure in business or school when you get
: a ham license ?
: Do you need a special permit every time you move your ham-equipped car
: from one place to the other ?
: DO they come into your house every so often to check your wattage ?

: Your license is good for life and you only pay if you want to transmit.

I agree, This is a stupid analogy - because people don't generally kill people
with HAM radios.

However, do you think you should be able to stockpile weapons with no one
knowing about it? For goodness sake, our society has no use for guns outside
of law enforcement. Some might believe so for hunting purposes - but rules
out uzi's, pistols, semiautomatics, etc.

You claim you are a responsible gun owner, so what is wrong with registering 
your gun? What freedom is being taken away from you? The freedom to go out and
shoot somebody on a whim with no one able to track you down is about it.

Any human being has the potential to quickly and easily go insane and/or
cause a lot of harm with a gun - more easily than with a knife, bomb, gasoline,
whatever. And don't you think there should be a system to track down suspects 
who are gun owners? (Note I didn't say gun owners, I said SUSPECTS who are 
gun owners)

: |> 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.

: If you worry about such things, then it is you who is the idiot.

There are many people who do worry about such things - I don't know what kind
of fantasy land you live in, but go take a walk in South Central LA, or
a ghettos in New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, or other cities. That danger is
very real to many people. If you don't agree, you are kidding yourself.

: Barry


: My own opinion, no one else's

As is mine.


Happy Holidays!
Kevin.