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Re: "Blanks" kill actors
"Shaun Eli" <missingchild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> Sorry, but if you're saying that newspapers don't report major stories
> because they're trying to please their readers, AND that people do NOT
> want to read about bad guys being shot, you're way off. I can't
> imagine anybody who doesn't want to read about bad guys being shot.
> But it doesn't happen all that often. And there is at least some
> separation between editorial and sales.
So you don't really know how many times a gun is used in self defense right?
> Okay, first of all, cars are used for transportation and it's only a
> bad side-effect that people are killed. A hundred million cars in this
> country are used probably on average a half-hour a day. Guns? Not so
> much. Furthermore, we have A LOT of laws to protect children in cars.
> Cars and drivers are licensed, we have thousands of traffic police, and
> traffic laws, and stop signs, and speed limits, and seat belt laws, and
> child seat laws-- AND TESTING before they LET YOU DRIVE. Oh, and
> bicycle helmets.
Driving cars and bicycle helmets are not a right given by the US
Constitution
> As far as the Constitution, it's clear to everyone who doesn't rally
> around gun ownership that the framers of the Constitution intended the
> Second Amendment to apply to state militias, NOT to private ownership.
> Otherwise there would be no way to stop you from owning machine guns or
> nuclear weapons. But as I doubt either of us is a Constitutional
> scholar, let's leave the Constitution out of this.
That last part says everything about where you're coming from
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