From: fist@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Richard Pierson)
Subject: Re: democratic platform
Reply-To: fist@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Richard Pierson)
Organization: Leave the Bylaws Alone
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 16:35:36 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.174742.4455@advtech.uswest.com>, steven@jaynes (
Steve Novak) writes:
|> > = (Phil Ngai) writes:
|> >> = (Mark A Zabel) writes:
|> >>> = ? (You'll have to ask Phil):
|> 
|> >>>>    Firearms. We support a reasonable waiting period to permit
|> >>>>background checks for purchases of handguns, as well as assault
|> weapons
|> 
|> >>It remains to be seen whether the limited restrictions mentioned in
|> the
|> >>platform above work.
|> 
|> >Does this mean you have no problem with a mere 24-hour waiting
|> period
|> >before a woman could get an abortion?
|> 
|> Apples and oranges being compared - and you know it full well, Ngai.
|> 
|> Waiting periods for purchasing firearms can help spot those with
|> criminal
|> records or mental problems, people I hope you agree shouldn't have
|> guns. 
 Do you have any Idea how easy it is to acquire firearms with false ID
?
 Do you have any Idea how easy it is to acquire false ID ?
 Do you have any Idea the personal infringements that would be
necessary
 to put into OPERATION the data base necessary for this. Most of the 
 information is already there, its only a matter of hooking up the
 data bases into a net. Then the IRS would know whether to send an
 armed agent to the audit interview or not, better yet if they couldnt
 find anything wrong with your tax records they could turn you over to
 the police for those outstanding parking tickets and they could even 
 tell you you've been buying too much coca-cola with your MAC card.
 
|> Anybody that is so in a hurry to get a gun that they can't wait seven
|> |> goddam days is the EXACT person you don't want buying a gun
|> immediately.
  Untrue..If I walk into a gun shop in PA carrying my .44 and my
Diamondback
and see a firearm I want (well thats not so strange) like a new Desert
Eagle
why should I have to wait 5-7 days when in the limited free time I have
I'm on the way out to the range. You dont have to wait to by a printing
press
and they have proved more dangerous than anyother mechanical device ever
made.
Of course the only thing more dangerous than govt is religion (better
profit
margin too).
My feelings on all this is the govt has no right, privilge or business
telling
me how,when or where as long as it does'nt interfere with anyone else, I
don't
think drugs would ever be leaglized, it would upset even more the
balance
of trade and drive up unemployment (DEA lays off 20k, ha, not a
chance..too
much money in it)


|> Forcing a woman to wait a "mere" 24 hours to get an abortion makes
|> zero
|> sense.  It's just something you control freaks are into.  She has
|> done no
|> wrong and is doing no wrong.  Who knows better than she if she wants
|> an
|> abortion?  Or gall bladder surgery?  Or a cap on her tooth?
 True, while I personally squirm uncomfortably when thinking of
abortions
it is up to the lady in question, to put it bluntly, its none of my
f**king
business, if it was my spouse, well then its discussion time if its
half
mine. Govt spends (and civilian interest groups) too much time poking
their
noses in things that don't concern them. How about using all these base
closings to house homeless families that lost everything due to the
economy. Govt has to sell them so speculators can build another empty
strip mall 
|> Maybe you could clarify this left-field comparison of yours.
|> 
|> >My opinions are my own.
|> 
|> Yet you wish to make those opinions everybody's, by force of law.
  I personally dont think this country is going to be recognizable 
in another 10 years, I wonder when the "War on Drugs" will force us 
to have internal passports and tatooed(sp) social security numbers.
But thats just my opinion
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