Re: United States attitudes towards guns and governments

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>(Note, I do NOT want to debate gun control. However, it does make an
>interesting discussion: what would the role of guns be within the NAC.)

>Allan Goodall			agoodall@interlog.com

This is an interesting point - my feeling would be that this matter
would
be variable depending on location.
In the Earth territories of the NAC, and in the more heavily settled
Inner
Colonies, gun control may be tight, whereas in the Outworlds where
population is sparse and a more "frontier" attitude prevails then
control
may be much looser or non-existant - though even then this is probably
going to vary with individual cases: a backwoods farmer on a
human-habitable outworld is likely to have quite an arsenal (defence
against inimical local wildlife as well as againstother settlers) while
a
hostile-environment outworld settlement with everyone living in close
proximity in a sealed environment might have total prohibition of
private
gun ownership.

Jon (GZG)