XPost: uk.politics.guns, aus.politics.guns, aus.politics   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: gordon@address.invalid   
      
   F Murtz  wrote:   
      
      
   >Absolute rot, removing guns will not change mans inhumanity to man as   
   >they are not the cause of mans inhumanity or criminality .   
      
   We hoplophobe's have never contradicted that argument. The only   
   argument that we have put forward is that limiting the destructive   
   power of the weapons that people can legally posses will limit the   
   damage that criminals can do. In addition, if possession of the weapon   
   is illegal, then criminals can be prosecuted _before_ they kill   
   someone. It is the same argument put forward against Iran developing   
   nuclear weapons.   
      
   >Since the begining of time, even before guns were invented man has found   
   >a reason and weapons to harm others and untill we concentrate on the   
   >causes and reasons we do what we do things will not change .   
   >No ammount of  anti gun rhetoric will have any effect,education and   
   >concentrating on and rectifying the causes of crime can.   
      
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