At 10:44 12-6-01 -0700, Dean Forster wrote:
>** Horrendous irresponsibility with guns still does
>not justify their confiscation or governmental
>regulation.
Why not? If you drive your car irresponsibly, the government can take away
your car and your driver's license. They do that because you are a danger
to others. If you are irresponsible with guns, you are also a danger to
others, so the government has every right to take your gun away from you.
The government is then doing what they are supposed to do: protect the
public from dangerous individuals.
> The solution is, say it with me.. taking
>personal responsibility. Making it a societal norm.
The idea is nice, but it would take too long before it would become a
societal norm. If we would start drilling personal responsibility into
everyone today, it would still take a few generations before it would
become a societal norm. The alternative is regulation. If we can
dramatically reduce the number of accidental deaths by guns in two years
through regulation, or reach that goal in two generations through teaching
people responsibility, I'm all for regulation.
Jeroen
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