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- From: mrichardson@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.new-zealand
- Subject: Re: US Gun Lobbyist Visits
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.104230.1830@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:42:30 -0500
- References: <1992Nov20.093304.12336@waikato.ac.nz> <1992Nov22.013405.6199@acme.gen.nz>
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- Organization: Georgetown University
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- In article <1992Nov22.013405.6199@acme.gen.nz>, kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I) writes:
- >> > <sarcasm alert>
- >> >
- >> > Semi-automatic weapons?!?! Oh no?! The horror!!!
- >> >
- >> > <sarcasm off>
- >> >
- >> > Hands up if anyone here actually has a clue what a semi-automatic rifle is.
- >>
- >> Ooh! Miss! Miss! I know! I know! And I don't think any reason in
- >> support of them (e.g. more effective bunny killing) even comes close
- >> to the myriad of reasons against them (e.g. more effective people
- >> killing by the anti-social, easy conversion, in some cases, to fully
- >> automatic and thus even easier people killing and so on.)
- >
- > You're absolutely right. But why stop there? Pump-action shot guns have quite
- > rapid rates of fire, let's outlaw them. Even a bolt-action rifle can be fast
- > (just ask Lee Harvey Oswald) so let's ban those as well. In fact, no hunter
- > can really justify needing a rapid rate of fire so let's make everything
- > illegal except nice slow black-powder weapons.
- >
- > - k
- > --
- > Craig Harding kilroy@acme.gen.nz ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
- > "Jub'er lbh pnyyvat n obmb?"
- You're a big fan of sarcasm, Miss Harding, so here's a little more: Oh
- no! I've been accused of making an ad hoc technological distinction!
- An arbitrary cut-off in what I consider an acceptable weapon in the
- hands of the philosopher Hunters. How can I defend myself on purely
- logical grounds?? (Sarcasm over.)
- In defence of this apparently unwarranted arbitrariness, I ask you to
- consider the following proposition: Yes, it's arbitrary and... and...
- I DON'T CARE!!
- In light of someone's earlier post, I guess it's true that this whole
- debate is really not appropriate to this newsgroup so I'll leave it
- at that. Thank you for your attention.
-
-