Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 19:36:23 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Jay Nelson <noslenj@swbell.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD"] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003271929180.11936-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20000327221634.A11538@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: :Even if you won't read it in that sense, it by no means says, "the :right of anyone to keep and bear any darn weapon they could ever :want." Personally, if you have not picked it up yet, I'm all for :people bearing rifles, shotguns, and "sport" weapons, but handguns, :assault weapons, etc. really serve no legitimate purpose in society at :large and there is no reason that they cannot be tightly :regulated. Rights in the amendments aren't absolute. We have free Tell me something; which gun exactly, isn't an assault weapon? I'm curious, as last I looked any gun could be used for: sport, self defense, hunting, murder, etc. You start banning 'assault' weapons (and let's be honest, a chair is an assualt weapon if you're willing to bludgeon someone with it), and pretty soon none are left. Are we, as a society only going to allow plastic unsharpened knives in restaurants? Are we going to go back to living in bare huts made of leaves because anything else is far too dangerous? Are you getting the point yet? Jamie Bowden -- "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, Microsoft is different from any other software company..." Kenneth G. Cavness To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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