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- Path: sparky!uunet!tis.com!mjr
- From: mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum)
- Newsgroups: dc.talk.guns
- Subject: Re: Gun control
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:37:03 GMT
- Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
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- m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY) writes:
- >[...] if things were truly
- >right in this world, your fellow citizens would have the will and the
- >tools to cover your back, because you'd be doing the same for them.
-
- What planet do you come from? If things were "truly right in
- the world" my wife and I wouldn't have had to curtail our evening walks
- in certain parts of the neighorhood because some fellow with a "legitimate
- sporting firearm" or "freedom preserving anti-government oppression device"
- or whatever you want to call it chose to use it instead to relieve us of
- our spare cash.
-
- Are you trying to imply that "if things were truly right in
- the world" he would have been blasted down in a hail of gunfire from
- my freedom-loving fellow citizens? Or are you saying I should have
- had a gun of my own and tried to outdraw him there on the corner?
- Perhaps you're right, I should have resisted oppression by getting
- gutshot so he could appreciate what a horrible thing a bullet wound
- is.
-
- "If things were truly right in the world" you wouldn't need
- a gun for self defence. Faugh!
-
- mjr.
- --
- "guns don't die. people do."
-