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- From: torban@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Torban Bennett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NO MORE **$(^*& FEMALE BIMBO ADS!!!!!!!!
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 02:07:51 GMT
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- Message-ID: <1h8hlnINNsrg@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au>
- References: <1992Dec1.130838.1788@msus1.msus.edu> <1992Dec1.214037.27948@ugle.unit.no> <torban.723461608@csuvax1> <BzA8uM.Kst@starnine.com>
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- mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas) writes:
-
- >In article <torban.723461608@csuvax1> torban@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Torban Bennett) writes:
-
- [keeping it short]
- [something about waiting peroids, ending with...]
-
- >The constitution is subverted by waiting periods. Remember that.
-
- Uh, mm...right. Ok then (?)
-
- >>The US has probably the greatest gun freedom of any civilised country.
- >>They also have probably the greatest crime problem involving guns in any
- >>civilised country.
-
- >Sweden requires every house to have a sub-machine gun and enjoy low
- >crime rates.
-
- I did not know this. In fact if this this is true, consider me
- amazed. I'm speechless...
-
- >England strongly retricts firearm ownership and suffers a terrible
- >crime rate.
-
- A terrible crime rate? I didn't know this either. I wouldn't have thought
- it was anywhere near the US. Again consider me stunned.....
-
- >View the crime rate in Washington D.C where it has been illegal to
- >buy a handgun for years.
-
- Ok, I hear this one a bit. But if you're not checked at the state's
- borders (maybe you are, I don't know) people could easily shop next
- 'door'. I feel that having 2 or 3 states with strong gun laws, surrounded
- by nearly 50 without, isn't going to give a good argument.
-
- [media violence]
-
- >But how many times can you see someone killed on TV tonight? How
- >many violent acts, exploitation of women, exposure to drugs are our
- >youths barraged with?
-
- Yes! _That_ is a good point, it leads to another can of worms.
-
- >They'll refuse to broadcast the Olympics shootin matches (one of
- >the oldest and most popular events), and yet will blast that
- >garbage on that screen all night. It's phenomonally disgusting!
-
- Really? That does sound a little over the top!
-
- [me, jumping to conclusions]
-
- >A few years ago, the town of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law
- >REQUIRING every home to have some kind of gun. In the years since,
- >the crime rate of that town has dropped like a rock.
-
- Wow! Thats an interesting law. Frankly, I'm flaberghasted!
-
- >Another town in Illinios did the opposite... banned guns completely,
- >the result? Their crime rate soared.
-
- >I'm not making a bit of this up... it is factual and verifyable.
-
- >Don't be short-sighted and jump to easy-fix conclusions. There
- >are many elderly that rely on a firearm to protect themselves
- >in their home. And firearms are used to PREVENT almost
- >a million crimes in America each year. That's FBI statistics,
- >folks.
-
- [guns in Oz]
-
- >Well, I'm glad that America was established with less restrictive laws.
- >To me, that's oppressive. If I obey the law, if I cause no one harm...
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- oouu, help me. I'm being opressed ;-)
-
- >the government has no right to prevent me from protecting myself
- >with a firearm if that is what I deem necessary.
-
- >I am innocent until proven guilty in this country. I have no
- >problem with my government keeping guns from felons... but
- >they better leave mine alone.
-
- >America was established to free us from such oppression. It is
- >based on F-R-E-E-D-O-M.
-
- Oh well, I'll admit your post was interesting, until I hit the ol'
- "God, aren't we great" Yes I keep forgetting that the US in the _only_
- country in the world where freedom exists. Sorry, I'll try not to
- think of myself as free ever again. Promise ;-)
-
- >Wake up. Go out and communicate with some gun owners.
-
- BBBRRINNGGGGGG!!!! Uhh, what...oh...time to get up. Man that
- coffee smells good. Wow I had some
- weird dream that the whole world was oppressed and only the good ol'
- US of A was still F-R-E-E.
- Anyway, whats this...BLAZEFLAMER (Tm) has been running all night
- uh oh, better check the news.
-
- Torban Bennett -- torban@murdoch.edu.AU --->
-