CDR: Re: Here's an interesting twist on gun control ...

[petro]

>On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>
>>  An interesting exercise is to ask where the government (ANY branch of
>>  government) gets the authority to require me to put smoke detectors
>>  in my home.  If my house burns down, that's my tough toenails, right?
>
>They don't if you're the home owner and it's your home. The law requires
>the owner of rental property to have them installed, there is no law that
>says the tenents must use them. For example the law does not clarify who
>and when the batteries must be changed.

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