Re: Gun Registry

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From: Frank E. Spencer
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 20:54

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"Dave" <dave128@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Rusty" <rustyh@mts.net> wrote in message news:3E1708BB.3020805@mts.net...
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>   Some think this is a big joke
> > but I don't find it very funny.
> > Rusty
> >
>
> I'm sure that nobody finds it funny, and it surely would have been better
to
> direct this money a little better. The idea of a gun registry is sound
> enough I suppose but surely this one is a fiasco.
>
> I'm not sure that gun violence will actually be reduced as a consequence
of
> registration, nobody seems sure of this, and yet that was it's only stated
> purpose. It seems to me that we may well have spent a billion dollars so
> that some politico could stand up and "look, were doing something !!" Time
> will tell I suppose, but by that time there will likely be another "hot"
> issue and the press will forget this one.

Well, you got the nail on the head. It's a political maneuver designed to
point at. Nothing more, and nothing less.
It won't accomplish it's goal, and it will continue to suck money back like
a thirsty duck. A waste of time, effort, and certainly money.

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