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Re: Gun Registry

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From: Calgary Rob
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 06:04
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"gutz" <dondoherty@canada.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 03:35:46 GMT, "Calgary Rob"
> <calgaryrobnospam@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>
> >Nice response dumbass.  I answered your question.  Now you tell us how a
> >state could do something negative by having a DNA Database.
>
> Well, a few thing come to mind.
>
> 1) They could then tell who was disposed to get a certain disease.
>     In turn, they could make the medication unavailable on medicare,
>  as they have done with many medications.
>
> 2) The information could be hacked and then sold to insurance
> companies, who could then deny people coverage because they have a
> certain genome structure.
>
> 3) Worst case scenario they could outlaw certain marriages. Depending
> on whether they do a 6 or 10 point DNA match, the gov't would know the
> predisposition of the personality of children that are yet to be born.
>
> Lastly, no gov't in the world is capable of correct data input
> (without error ) and maintaining it. They can't even do this with
> fingerprints to date.


Interesting points, but still very week.  Not like those warranted so many
people to start insulting me.

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Calgary Rob
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