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Re: Gang friendly neighborhoods, anyone?

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From: David J. Silveira
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 18:52
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In article <38f8gq$hd@crchh518.bnr.ca>, tomg@bnr.ca (Tom G) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> Well I'd like to buy a tank and shoot off a couple of rounds.  Why can't I?
|> I'd also like to buy a hand-held surface-to-air missle launcher and
|> "expend" a few rounds.  After all this stuff can be purchased very
|> inexpensively from our former Soviet Union adversaries. Why can't I?
|> Right to bear arms and all that 200+ year old stuff you know.  It is 
|> right-to-bear arms, isn't it.  It doesn't say just guns.  Then
|> why are automatic weapons, tanks, rocket launchers, portable nuclear
|> weapons, etc. CONTROLLED.

What kind of stupid assinine statement is this?  Could you suggest some
where I might be able to go pick up some of this equipment for say a couple
hundred dollars at most?

|> 
|> We lost our right-to-bear arms a long time ago.  Now we are having
|> problems dealing with the gun fanatics.  Any idiot who cries right
|> to bear arms should also support the right to have any "arm".  How
|> would it feel knowing some punk has an anti-aircraft weapon?
|>

Just when did this happen?

|> The vast majority of Handguns are designed to kill people.  Period.
|> 

All guns were designed to kill. What they kill is dependent upon
the person pulling the trigger. 

|> I guess you speak from personal experience.  After all, you have a 
|> gun fetish, obsession, craze, fascination and yes a MANIA.
|> 
|> Hasn't made me angry.  I see no reason for insults.  Though I must
|> say that I doubt you are a product of a selective breeding program.


Looking at the above statements might lead someone to believe that
you fall into this catagory too.
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