From: "Eric Ruud" <ejruud@ucdavis.edu> To: <extropians@extropy.com> Subject: Re: Fear of Guns Vs. Fear of No Guns Date sent: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 23:13:25 -0700 Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> Let's start letting little kids drive! and while we're at it, let's let
> anybody perform surgery on anyone else! And we could make all of the jet
> liner captains people we find on the street! Hell why do we have tests for
> ANYTHING?
>
Especially since NO ONE can be trusted to fairly design
or administer tests to ANY ONE, and most especially not the
*&%@! GuvMint! (ptoo!)
>
> Sorry if I'm barking up tehe wrong tree here... it was a gut reaction.
>
> Don't assume I'm anti-gun either, cuz I'm not.
>
> -Eric
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <EvMick@aol.com>
> To: <extropians@extropy.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 1999 10:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Fear of Guns Vs. Fear of No Guns
>
>
> > In a message dated 6/7/99 12:09:15 PM Central Daylight Time,
> jamesr@best.com
> > writes:
> >
> > > I
> > > have no problem with having Proof of Competence being a prerequisite to
> > > buying a gun, because it is fairly obvious from the above example that
> some
> > > people need it.
> >
> >
> > Now that sounds like an excellent idea.
> >
> > Perhaps we might even have a proof of competence test for other aspects of
> > life as well?
> >
> > Only one minor problem though...who is going to administer said test? Are
> > the administrators themselves competent? Is the test valid? What's to
> keep
> > such a "tool" from being used for personal or political advantage?
> >
> > EvMick
> > Edinberg Tx.
> >
>
>