[MicroBalrog]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Boris Karpa" <karpa@netvision.net.il>
To: <contact@iansa.org>
Cc: <johnny@dvc.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 6:56 PM
Subject: The Control Arms website


> Good day!
> I am a citizen of the State of Israel. In my country, the possession of arms
> is heavily regulated by law. According to your site, regulation of the
> possession of arms by states and their citizens would increase peace and
> security around the world - and especially in troubled areas like the Middle
> East. But it seems to me the your argumentation is a little faulty. Here are
> a few examples:
>
> 1.You claim 500,00 people a year are killed by small arms. Where does that
> come from?
> These people disagree:
> http://www.davekopel.com/2A/Foreign/Global-Deaths-from-Firearms.htm
>
> 2.You also claim that nothing good comes out of unregulated trade in
> firearms. Yet currently, there's no factual proof that regulations on arms
> trade do any good at all - despite various attempts on national arms
> regulation tried by nearly every known nation in the last century, there's
> no concrete evidence to support arms regulation. At best, it's useless and
> harmless - you'd think that if it worked, we'd know by now. Some researchers
> believe gun control is even harmful - but even if they are wrong, why waste
> money on an effort which has not proven itself - despite 100 years of
> trying?
>
> 3.You claim that the "uncontrolled spread of small arms" is harmful to civil
> rights.
> I believe that it's not so. In fact, no act of genocide has ever been
> committed against a well-armed population. We might not know how efficient
> gun control is, but we do know this: "If every family on this planet owned a
> good quality rifle, genocide itself would be on the path to extinction"
> (http://www.davekopel.com/2A/Foreign/Brown-Journal-Kopel.pdf )
>
> I am extremely interested in your opinion on these issues.
> Greetings,
> Boris Karpa, Self-Defense Network
>
> P.S. More information may be found on these sites:
>
> http://www.keepandbeararms.com
> http://www.thehighroad.org
> http://www.rkba.co.uk/sdn/
>
>


Note: This really not the best I've ever written.

[C.R.Sam]

Note: This really not the best I've ever written. Good tho.
Would that many more would write concisely and factually without an overage of emotion.

Then more might read and heed.

Sam

[fallingblock]

We need to remind Becky Peters and her minions that we are not all mindless sheep out here:D

[Mark Tyson]

I just got a response from one of the groups in the campaign:

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Subject:Re: control arms project
Date:10/16/2003 8:48:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Thank you for your email. The aim of the campaign is to control the proliferation and misuse of weapons, not to oppose civilian ownership of weapons. All of the information about the campaign - including Amnesty International, Oxfam and IANSA's concerns regarding US exports, is available on the web site www.controlarms.org.

I hope this is of help

Richard Bunting

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[Standing Wolf]

The aim of the campaign is to control the proliferation and misuse of weapons, not to oppose civilian ownership of weapons.

Sounds like something little Joey Lieberman might say from one or the other of his faces.