Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From: [doctor 1] at [cbnewse.cb.att.com] (patrick.b.hailey)
Subject: Re: LEGALIZATION
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 06:41:17 GMT

In article <[C 7 zyyo B 03] at [sugar.NeoSoft.COM]> [h j t] at [NeoSoft.com] (H J Thywissen) writes:
>ARE THOSE TWO tenets inconsistent? If not, why do the advocates of drug
>legalization not also support the presumption of innocence of gun owners?

Says who?

Prohibition is aggression.  Agression begets aggression.  You reap what
you sow.

I was raised a Christian, and my girlfriend is still a bible-believing,
fundamentalist Christian.  We were taught to treat others as we wish to be
treated.  To put it another way, we were taught that we must respect our
neighbor's (peaceful) choices.  If you don't, you wind up reaping what
you've sown.

We are, first and foremost, very active drug policy reform activists.
Secondly, we are active Libertarians.  With that comes, thirdly, a 100%
opposition to all other government prohibitions on peaceful activities.

My girlfriend always hated politics.  If nothing else (and there is, of 
course, plenty else), it was no place for someone with Christian
sensibilities.  When we found out about the Libertarian Party, she
read the party's 'Statement of Principles', and wanted to join right
away.  At last, a political home for a good Christian.

We do not own a gun.  We are both anti-abortion.  She is anti-drugs.  When
she was doing missionary work, she ministered to prostitutes.  Not
surprisingly, the word "prostitution" carries nothing but evil connotations
for her.  But to encode any of these things in public policy is aggression,
and, one way or another, aggression always comes back to you.  As a Christian
and as people striving to be decent human beings, aggression is public enemy
number 1.

From laws against peaceful gun ownership to mandatory school-attendance
laws, we oppose them.  (Well, at least at the federal level.)

Feel better?   You are not alone.

   Thanks awfully,
             Patrick