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Nathaniel McIntosh (mcintosh@rice.edu) wrote:
> The more pertinent question is whether additional gun control
> legislation will reduce crime. 

> I read them last fall, and I'm glad I did. There is so much
> ideological "flak" surrounding the issue of gun control that it's very
> difficult to get accurate information.

> Nat
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The gun control debate just like the abortion debate is absent of 
anything compromisable. Both sides have dug their trenches and will not 
listen to the other side. Both are screaming at the tops of their lungs 
the "well known facts." 

I believe that much of the social change that hase occured the the last 
150 years was not based on empirical studies, but on emotions and the 
plight of men, women, and children. I wish to control hand guns and 
automatic weapons, not because they kill, but because I see no need for 
the ordinary citizen to possess them. I can't hunt with a hand gun nor a 
automatic weapon. For protection in the house, I'd prefer a shotgun 
loaded with rock salt. Only rarely will the blast kill someone. The roar 
and the visable presents will frighten most intruders. And salt in the 
open wound will leave memories.
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