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What the hell is this doing in sci.electronics?

amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes:

> <1991Jan11.234809.19061@cs.ucla.edu> loving@lanai.cs.ucla.edu 
> <1991Jan9.200754.8857@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> eacj@batcomputer.tn.cornell
> >>I was in Miami during New Year's Eve.  The locals there have gone way beyon
> >>M-80's.  At midnight, they have this quaint custom of going outside
> >>thier automatic and semi-automatic weapons in the sky.
> > only 1 legal fully automatic weapon has been used in a crime since 1935
> >National Firearms Act (which stiffly regulates the ownership of such weapons
> >I seriously doubt that you heard much automatic weapons fire, but Idon't dou
> >that you heard weapons fire, and quite possibly semi-automatic weapons fire.
> >I just doubt that anyone who legally owned a full auto would be shooting it 
> >town and risk a serious misdemeanor and I doubt that anyone who illegally ow
> >a full auto (a federal felony already) will be advertising it on New Years..
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> Mike, get a grip, take some guacamole dip and call your analyist.  Illegal
> full auto weapons are available in every major city in the country.  I have 
> het several people who have gone to the big house for peddling them.  A cache
> of them were just recovered in northern florida by LEO.  Portions of southern
> florida & miami have become a haven for law breaking scum.  They would think
> little about getting caught with or shooting a full auto.  This tradition
> of weapons fire is a age old one of spanish/south american descent.
> I recall a section on cnn saying the number of people accidently shot in
> something like bueno aerias (sp) last year, and it was rather scary (just 
> on that day...).  The accompying audio did sound like a  full blown war.
> However, I'd agree that MOST of the shots did come from (generally/usuall/
> kinda/sorta) law abiding citizens/resident aliens and originated from either
> semi-auto or full manual weapons.  The great number and density of firing
> makes the sound and generates the fear of automatic weapons.
>    People who use guns to commit crime should be utterly destroyed, and would
> simplye use another weapon if available.  The simple fact that a certain is
> illegal will not stop or even persuade a criminal from using it, simply
> because it's illgeal, after all they are already (committed) to breaking
> laws by commiting crimes in the first place.  Focus at the root of the
> evil, which is the criminal act, not the weapon used to support a act, and
> punish the guilty appropriatrly.  As mike so clearly points out, only a tiny
> fraction of legal weapons are used for illegal purposes
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> Al. Michielsen, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University
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