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Mercnbeth -> RE: Smoking Ban Results in Shooting (7/30/2007 3:46:48 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Sinergy
On the one hand you have those who think that excessive criminal violence, shootings, etc., are a part of our society.
Then you have people who blame cigarettes for it.
Seems like a non sequiter to me, but I could be wrong.
Sinergy
It is social engineering logic at its finest. If you criminalize cigarette smoking, as is the current trend, soon only criminals will smoke cigarettes. For many, that goal is desirable. The NRA uses the same position as a defense with its; "If you criminalize gun ownership, only criminals will have guns."
It appears this event marks the resulting marriage of the two positions and makes the point for the NRA. In the UK gun ownership is prohibitory to the point of being, as philosophy points out, only granted under "stringent conditions". Smoking in this pub was also "criminal". Providing proof, beyond a reasonable doubt, as smoking becomes more of a crime, smokers are more likely, as criminals anyway, to carry guns. Those in the US should beware of how when guns and smoking are both criminal acts - this is an example of what can happen.
In the US, where you are just as likely to be carrying a gun as the smoker, they may think twice before blowing you away, exhaling smoke over your body, and, as in this instance, finishing their glass of Chablis; when you tap them on the back and ask them to put out the cigarette.
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