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Actually point 2) is in error.
Automatic weapons are legally sold to individuals in the United States.
These sales are heavily regulated by BATF. It is interesting to note that
Over the past 50+ years since the Sale of Automatic weapons have been
regulated in the US, only a handful have been used to commit violent acts.
However, as usual, it is the criminal element, that casually disregards laws
anyway, that uses both semi and fully automatic weapons to commit violent
crime.
The moral to the story is: Require every law-abiding citizen in the U.S. to
carry a firearm. We might quickly find that an armed society is a polite
society. <*Grin*>
Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Omega Man [SMTP:editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 1:14 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx; Ullrich Fischer
> Subject: Re: Off topic....
>
>
> Ullrich wrote:
>
> > ... US society will degenerate into the morass
> > of mindless violence that plagues parts of Eastern Europe and
> > Africa (among other less than garden spots of the world). Can
> anyone
> > still rationally argue that every US citizen should have a
> constitutionally
> > protected right to buy automatic weapons without a background check?
>
>
> Let's get the facts straight:
>
> (1) The individual who committed these senseless murders used pistols,
> not
> automatic weapons.
> (2) Automatic weapons are not sold to individuals in the U.S.
> (3) Have you been to Africa? I recommend that everyone go there. You
> will
> come back with a much improved appreciation of what can be done with a
> machete and a little fire. Guns are not necessary to kill.
>
> The most violent places on earth are those where villages are wiped out
> (yes, it happens daily) with machetes.
>
>
> The Omega Man
>
>
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