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Originally posted by PlawsWorth
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I believe in the end that the more firearms there are they larger the risk of wrong people or people in a bad mood gets their hands on them use them.
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Such "untidyness" is part of the cost of freedom. Just as men are free to be all they can be, they are free to be assholes as well. Totalitarian dictatorships are
very orderly!
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Originally posted by PlawsWorth
So limiting access and use of firearms to a level where they are only owned and used by people in real need of them ...
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Need determined by whom?
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Originally posted by PlawsWorth
...and why not storing firearms at the shooting range, which is the only legal place that you may use them, not counting hunting....
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It is also
legal to defend one's life and property. Unless you are the owner of the shooting range.... You get the idea.
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Originally posted by PlawsWorth
Also finding out how to change people arrogant view on killings and changing peoples attitude
on violence, firearms etc to make us all more friendly, would be the dream. Though that is not possible, at lest I don't think so.
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This, of course, is the Holy Grail of (nearly) all ethical systems. It
is possible with a rational philosophical framework. The problem lies in the lack of such in the dominant ethical "authorities" now extant.
Bob