Re: GUNS: Prevention vs. Punishment, Parental vs. Child Responsibility

From: Joe Dees (joedees@addall.com)
Date: Sun Apr 16 2000 - 20:28:57 MDT


('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) >Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 09:28:09 -0400
>From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: Re: GUNS: Prevention vs. Punishment, Parental vs. Child Responsibility
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>
>Cynthia wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Joe Dees <joedees@addall.com>
>>
>> > As the Prez said, we punish reckless drivers, but we still install child
>> seats and seat belts. We punish airplane hijackers, but we still have metal
>> detectors and luggage inspection at airports. It is said that an ounce of
>> prevention is worth a pound of cure. Why should firearms be the only thing
>> where prevention is forbidden?
>>
>> Why are you quoting the prez, like we care about his opinion? A better analogy
>> would be, we punish hijackers, but we still have airline flights! The goal of
>> the anti gun movement is nothing less than to take away guns from honest people.
>> Why do you come in here and make obviously misleading statements as if we all
>> have noodles for brains?
>
>Wow, Cynthia. I don't even need to say another word...
>
Ad hominem fallacies have always been good enough for you, Mike.
>

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