Dirty hands kill more people (80K/yr) than guns (FWD)
This needed to be shared... Expect government hand escrow any day now. From: aib@col.hp.com (Allan Best) Newsgroups: alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.democrats.d,alt.politics.usa.republican,al t.rush-limbaugh,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.libertarian,talk.politics .libertarian,talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.guns,alt.law-enforcement Subject: Re: Dirty hands kill more people (80K/yr) than guns Date: 17 Jun 1997 20:18:00 GMT Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division ec Roberts (armed_and_safe@technologist.com) wrote: : On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 14:00:03 +0900, Jason Gottlieb : <zj5j-gttl@asahi-net.or.jp> wrote: : {snip} : >The #1 murder weapon is a hand with a handgun in it. : > : The #1 murder weapon is a hand. This is so, : regardless of the tool in that hand. : Bob The obvious solution is to register all hands. Hands must be kept away from children. To protect children, a hand shall not be transported to within 1000 yards of any school, playground or daycare facility. All concealed carry hands must be registered. Concealed carry is banned in all government facilities, especially US Post Offices, and all public buildings including, but not limited to airports, bus stations, train depots and taxi stands. Furthermore, there shall be a 15-day waiting period and a background check before the purchase of any legal hand can be completed. Anyone caught with an unregistered hand shall have that hand immediately confiscated and be liable to a fine and/or imprisonment. The ownership of fully-automatic hands, assault hands, ugly hands, or cop-killer gloves is expressly forbidden. : > : >-- : >Jason Gottlieb : >Homepage goodies: Japanese SDF info, USA : > gun control info, travellogues, and more! : >http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~zj5j-gttl : **** Armed and Safe(tm) **** : **** www.ivic.net/~ecr **** --- | "That'll make it hot for them!" - Guy Grand | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | |`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan@ctrl-alt-del.com|
At 12:59 PM 6/22/97 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote:
Expect government hand escrow any day now.
You're rather behind the times - we already have hand registration in many places. In particular, California wants your thumbprint, assuming you want to drive. (A couple decades ago, my father-in-law annoyed the Hawaii driver's license bureaucrats by insisting they follow the law. The law required either an SSN or a thumbprint, but the clerks in fact wanted the SSN because it's much less work, and (not that they cared personally) more useful for databases. He gave them the thumbprint. This was before the states were allowed to make it mandatory to provide SSNs; CA wants both now, of course.) Also, there's an obvious extension to gun registration, which is the requirement to provide several bullets shot with each of your guns, so they can do ballistics checks later. Obviously it won't stop unregistered gun trading, and isn't much use for shotguns, but it's a start. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list or news, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)
At 5:14 pm -0400 on 6/22/97, Bill Stewart wrote:
Also, there's an obvious extension to gun registration, which is the requirement to provide several bullets shot with each of your guns, so they can do ballistics checks later.
It's my understanding that this is half next to useless because all you have to do is go out and fire a few thousand (hundred?) rounds and the ballistics change... Since the first thing you should do after you get a gun is fire a few thousand rounds through it, anyway, no problem, right? Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/
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