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from: David Lentz
date: 2000-08-01 00:00:00
subject: Re: CA: STOP AB273 (REGISTRATION & LICENSING)


Anthony Cresap wrote:
> 
> Why the double standard?  Because guns are built for the pupose of killing.
> Cars are not.


> 
> David Lentz wrote:
> 
> > Anthony Cresap wrote:
> > >
> > > My bother-in-law was shot dead in the street by a drunk, right in front of
> > > my sister and nephew.
> > >
> > > Personally, I think NRA members should be lined up against a wall and shot
> > > with their own guns.
> > >
> > > Mike Haas wrote:
> >
> > If your brother in law was run over by a car, would you want to
> > shoot everybody in the American Automobile Association?   If yes,
> > why the excess hostility?  If no, why the double standard?
> >
> > Further, as your brother in law was shot by a drunk, do you favor
> > summary execution of all the farmers who grew the grain for the
> > alcohol?

Guns are not designed to kill.  Rather they are designed to fire
a projectile.  What that projectile does is up to the user of the
gun to decide.

So back to the question, a person was killed by a drunk driver
should be summarily execute all grain farmers, and if not why
not?

David

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