From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 05:28:41 +0800
To: Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>
Subject: Re: Dirty hands kill more people (80K/yr) than guns (FWD)
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At 12:59 PM 6/22/97 -0700, Alan Olsen wrote:
>Expect government hand escrow any day now.

You're rather behind the times - we already have hand registration
in many places.  In particular, California wants your thumbprint,
assuming you want to drive.  (A couple decades ago, my father-in-law
annoyed the Hawaii driver's license bureaucrats by insisting they
follow the law.  The law required either an SSN or a thumbprint,
but the clerks in fact wanted the SSN because it's much less work,
and (not that they cared personally) more useful for databases.
He gave them the thumbprint.  This was before the states were allowed
to make it mandatory to provide SSNs; CA wants both now, of course.)

Also, there's an obvious extension to gun registration,
which is the requirement to provide several bullets shot
with each of your guns, so they can do ballistics checks later.
Obviously it won't stop unregistered gun trading,
and isn't much use for shotguns, but it's a start.



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