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Thread #11070 Message #82789
Posted By: bseed(charleskratz)
29-May-99 - 11:14 PM
Thread Name: Hesitatingly, GUNS again
Subject: RE: Hesitatingly, GUNS again
But most advocates of gun control (including me) don't think they should be confiscated, but that the sales should be strictly controlled, with background checks on buyers to weed out the criminal and the psychotic, with limits on the kinds of guns and ammo and accessories that can be sold: no large clip semi-autos, no full autos, no teflon coated bullets, no kits for conversion of legal weapons to illegal weapons, acceptance of legal responsibility by gun owners for what happens to/with their weapons. Every gun in the country should be registered, and those paranoid about confiscation will certainly have plenty of time to head for the hills with their stashes of firearms and flamethrowers before the government comes out to get them. I know there's an occasional Ruby Ridge or Waco or Philadelphia/MOVE incident, but it wasn't the mere possession of guns that motivated the government(s) to move in these cases. --seed