[geeks] gun stuffs... was UPS stuffs

Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez lefa at ucsc.edu
Thu Jul 17 18:02:16 CDT 2003


On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 05:42 PM, N.Miller wrote:
>
> > On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 01:45 PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> > <snip "children killing children" story>
> >
> > <snip>
> > You wouldn't have a pool in your back yard without teaching your
> > kids to swim, would you?  Do you trust the fence to keep them out?
> > What if your neighbor has a pool?  Are you going to trust that
> > neighbor to keep the pool safe?  Oh, wait, maybe we better outlaw
> > pools.
>
> Pools don't kill children as fast as guns.

Also Pools are not designed with the only purpose of killing. Sure dead
can be a "side effect" but that doesn't make the analogy correct by a
long shot (pun intended :))

As far as I know, regulating gun use is not the same as outlawing gun use.



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