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By no means, (a less fascistic police state is higher in my preference ordering) but it's not a choice of ending production and making Winchester employees re-employed in other machine-tool industries since more US gunmakers are having their key consumer lines produced outside the US (the Japanese do this, for example). We really have to be realistic about small arms production, distribution and consumption at their various scalar and trans-national levels since for every US person unarmed for our own piety, there are a bunch of folks (us and others) who will use them and if we stop making them, for example munitions makers / merchants like the Swiss (those notoriously neutral non-warring folks) will make more of them for sale in an "open" market. It still is about ideology (in the last, bitter instance). If you've got the cash you probably can get a firearm; the issue is one of realistic constitutional regulation. Ann ^^^^^^^^ CB: Yea, it would take more than stopping manufacture. If made illegal they'd become like illegal drugs. And of course there is no realistic chance that Americans would outlaw guns ! I would not exactly call opposition to so many people getting shot "pious". This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
