FR>But that's the rub isn't it. How do you keep the fingers off?  Guns don't
  >exist in a vacuum. Heinlein's illogic demands that people not act like 
peopl
  >It would have us believe that a bright and shiny 50 cal sitting in Jim 
Henry
  >dining room would never be touched!  Now, I am sure of your truthfullness 
an
  >would accept your promise to never touch it :-), but how about everyone 
else
  >with access to your dining room? You couldn't keep guard over it all the 
tim
  >and any security system can be breeched.  Maybe if you poured cement on it
  >then nobody could touch it. But, then it wouldn't be very dangerous 
nymore
  >would it and what's the use of a non-dangerous 50 cal taking up your 
ining
  >room... that would be silly.
Again, logic escapes you.  The problem is not with an inanimate object 
which has no good or evil qualities and is NOT dangerous at all.  The 
only way a weapon could be dangerous is if it was defective in some way 
so as to cause it to discharge on its own, with no human intervention.
As has already been stated, we have over 20,000 gun laws in the U.S. 
already.  If HCI truly was concerned with safety and not with relieving 
us of our guns and our rights, they would be touting safety programs 
like NRA's Eddie Eagle and be campaigning for widespread gun safety 
education programs, NOT any type of restrictions on guns or 
restrictions on access to guns by otherwise law abiding adults.
Jim
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