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>One Follow-up Thought.....

>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.

>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.

>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.

>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..

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.

John Aadn�y
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