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   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: haggisz@hotmail.com   
      
   Gordon Levi wrote:   
   > F Murtz  wrote:   
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   >> 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.   
      
   more rot,the damage is rarely done with legally posessed weapons.   
   If you removed guns altogether I could think of methods which would kill   
   many more than guns and some of those methods would surface as soon as   
   you removed the evil gun because of the will of evil man.   
      
      
      
   >> 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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