James Robinson wrote in
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Chad Irby wrote:

James Robinson wrote:

Chad Irby wrote:

AJC wrote:

Having finger-prints taken for a driving licence? Maybe in
Cuba, the former DDR, or some other 'big brother' regime, but
certainly not in any free country. Finger-printing is for
criminals.

Check up on Brazil, then. They were complaining about
fingerprinting people from Brazil coming into the US, but
neglected to note that they already fingerprint and photograph
*all* of their own citizens.

Does that somehow make it better? Note he said a "big brother"
regime.

Brazil is a democracy, you should look up your terms.

"Big Brother" is not restricted to totalitarian regimes. Again, being
a democracy, does it make it better that they take photos and
fingerprints from everybody?

How do you feel about the registration of firearm?

I don't approve of it.

Figures.

Note that over the last couple of years, firearms laws have been
*relaxing* across most of the US, with one of the sillier ones going
away this September (the Assault Weapons Ban).

Good idea. Let's all pass out assault weapons so the terrorists can
get hold of them more easily. And don't register them, so you can't
find them.


Uh,if a firearm is NOT left behind at a crime scene,there's nothing to
trace back to anyone. I hope you're not going to bring up "ballistic
fingerprinting",as it's ineffective,and the "FP" changes over time,with use
of the firearm,and CAN be intentionally altered easily,unlike true
fingerprints.

Registering firearms is only useful for confiscation.

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Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net