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So what are you saying?  When we play Quake we kill each other with cars?


john aadnoey wrote in message <1735.899T20...@c2i.net>...
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>>One Follow-up Thought.....
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>>We all pay a price for the things we have.  Living within a society,
>>means we give up the right to act anyway we want to, and live by that
>>society's laws.  Gun ownership means being responsible for that
>>firearm.
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>>My point:  If everyone were given a firearm, sure there would be an
>>increase in "accidental" deaths, and the "criminals" would probably
>>run wild for a year or two, until they all got shot dead in the
>>street.
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>>Would society accept these "losses" just as society accepts losses
>>from other types of dangerous, but condoned, behavior??  Example,
>>driving an automobile on a highway at 70 MPH is very dangerous when
>>you have an unexperienced 17 year old behind the wheel.  Society pays
>>for this trade-off by demanding higher Insurance Premiums.  The same
>>can be said for airplanes.  Sure you're going to have a few accidents.
>>Sure you're going to have a few hundred deaths per year, but that's
>>the price we pay for the convinence of going from New York to San
>>Diego in less than 6 hours.
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>>Will socity accept a "certain number" of "accidents" for the right to
>>bare arms??  Probably not.  Yet it's an intresting arguement from a
>>philosophical point of view..
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>A truck has a bigger value for the society than a gun has.
>A truck/car can move people/cargo etc, while guns are only made
>for killing people.
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>John Aadn�y
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