Renee Jenson starts her post: "> I'm not quite understanding Jim Graham's Point. He wrote: > > >A Minneapolis specific reply to Mork's suggestion that >since people have > "guns" lying around, mentally ill people >may have access to and use them.Is > Mr. Mork also >suggesting that automobiles be outlawed in Minneapolis > >because a mentally ill person may have access to them?
Renee ends her post with >" It time our laws start to reflect reality > rather than our fears. Bingo Renee! By golly I think you got the point at the end. The irrational attachment of fears or motives to an inanimate object and someone's possible use of that object does not clarify an issue. It was not I who made that illogical attachment. My added examples were meant as irony to prove the ridiculous nature of such association. Making law on the basis of such illogical fears is not usually good policy. Barb Lickness sent an e-mail reminding me that I forgot razor blades in my previous post. She is so correct, they should be outlawed! Do you realize the number of suicides caused by people picking these things up and cutting their wrists? Should men's vanity and fashions justify and allow these dangerous things to be sold? It is like the hemp argument. Why is corn allowed to be grown in this country when people sometimes make a mind altering dangerous drug (alcohol) from it. Is it because it can be made into bread, or because it has traditionally been grown by farmers in this country? Hummm, didn't the colonial American farmers raise hemp for a cash crop that was exported? And hasn't RT Rybak said that hemp bread is good to eat? Hummm, yes it does make one wonder about illogical constructs. Jim Graham, Ventura Village >"The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis. REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
