"Reasonable"? I have to hear your definition of reasonable. Does it extend to 1 in 10?
What if all guns are banned but one make and model. After a long period to allow for mechanical failure of guns currently in civilian hands, only this gun is used to kill police officers and the ratio is now 9 in 10 (there still remain knifes, baseball bats and other means for the rest). Should we ban that gun too? In your view of reasonable, there exists no idea of rights at all. I don't have a right to a firearm of any kind, so long as there are criminal elements who will misuse them. Phil Lee > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > The main thing about the VPC result is that they counted as "AW" many guns that they > want to be on the list, but are unlikely to ever be put there. > > A more subtle complaint is that they counted _only_ what they considered "AW"s as a > part of the whole. It is entirely possible that "4 out of 10" are committed with a > .38 revolver -- with the implication that "more police officers lives would be saved" > if revolvers were banned. But that result exposes the silliness of their underlying > premise. > > --jcr > > To the general public, indeed I would say to most people, if the statement 4 of 10 of weapons used to kill officers in the line of duty > were the "Acme abc" model firearm, then it would be reasonable, not silly, for citizens to make an effort to ban Acme abc model. An effort to diminish or reduce officers killed in the line of duty would receive justifiable support. A reasonable adjunct to efforts to ban Acme abc weapons would be to include similar/identical weapons which is what the assault weapons ban was intended to accomplish. > > > -- Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy ... and when you ... overcome him never let up in the pursuit ... for an army ... hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. ... never fight against heavy odds, if ... you can hurl your own force on only ... the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail ... --- Gen. T. J. Jackson, CSA _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof
