 >This argument sounds very stupid.. if the ability to make guns from
 >"simple metalworking" was easy,  then Drug dealers would make their own 
 >wouldn't they???.. why spend hundreds of dollars buying a gun that
 >somebody else made cheap and is selling it to you at an
 >exorbitant markup???... The simple truth of the matter is, that regardless
 >of how easy it is to make guns, banning guns will reduce the 
 >the number of new guns and seriuosly impede the efforts of a 
 >killer intent on buying a weapon....
 >To show why the tools argument is the silliest i have ever seen.. take an
 >analogy from computer science... almost every computer science major
 >can write a "wordprocessor" yet we(comp sci majors)  would willingly pay 3  
 >to 400 bucks for a professional software like wordperfect... why don't we  
 >just all write our own software???...... Because it is highly  
 >inconvinient!!!..
 >Same with guns... secondly.. how does one get this gunpowder for the 
 >"home made gun" ??? Take a quick trip to the local 7-eleven???.
 > If guns were really that simple to make... the Bosnian muslims would
 >be very happy people (or is it the case that metalworking tools are
 >banned in bosnia??? (deep sarcasm)  ).
 >
 >well this is my two cents..
 >   i will now resume reading all these ridiculus post from people
 >     who must make their living doing stand-up comedy.
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