Re: Larry Niven: Terrorize Latinos to Solve Health Care Crisis

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> David Harmon <bad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > They will have no problem with why herd immunity makes vaccinations
> > a good thing.  Where you will have trouble is with your premise that
> > every good thing must be mandatory.
>
> Right.  Another example, one that liberals will react to differently,
> is that mandatory gun ownership gives an area herd immunity from
> crime.  Sure, there will be a tiny number of fatal abuses and fatal
> gun accidents, but then there are also a tiny number of fatal
> reactions to vaccines.

Depends on the liberal. I tend to be fairly far to the left by US
standards,
and while I'm not convinced that it would actually produce "herd immunity
from crime," I would not be actively opposed to making firearms ownership
mandatory... as long as the government was paying for (or giving away) the
firearms in question, and providing education/training own safely keeping
and using them.

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