What Kind of People We Are

[Robert Sheridan]

I give up on farmers having guns.  So far as I know, the people  
committing massacres aren't farmers.  They're high school and college  
boys and people taking anti-depressants (supposedly).  People want to  
protect themselves with guns?  Fine.  Against whom?  Known people who  
are threatening or potential assailants?  College dorm students want  
or need guns?  Since when?

I still say there's a lot of evading the point going on here.

rs
sfls

On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:59 PM, Volokh, Eugene wrote:

> 	I don't get this.  If farmers are allowed to have guns "as long
> as they keep them on the farm," then the farmer who wants to embark  
> on a
> mass murder spree can just take the gun with him off the farm and  
> to his
> chosen scene of the crime.  I say again:  Prohibiting something  
> doesn't
> mean stopping it, especially when the target of the prohibition is
> willing to violate prohibitions against murder.
>
> 	The only way to keep the farmer from taking the gun with him to
> the scene of the crime is to prohibit guns altogether, confiscating  
> the
> 200+ million weapons that are out there.  And that would mean that  
> Scott
> and his family wouldn't be able to defend themselves, on the farm or
> elsewhere.
>
> 	Eugene
>
> Robert Sheridan writes:
>
>> Well, Scott, I don't see too many farmers going on rampages
>> in colleges, high schools, post offices, or against
>> presidents and rock stars, so you're off the hook there.
>> They can have all the anti- varmint weapons that they need,
>> in my view, as long as they keep them on the farm or out in
>> the woods or the range.  Fair enough?  Oh, yes, and a
>> personal protection firearm for the wife and kids to keep
>> around the farmhouse and over the mantle, sorta like Daniel Boone
> had....
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