Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihu1m!gadfly From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.rec Subject: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA Message-ID: <182@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 00:47:14 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1m.182 Posted: Fri Jan 4 00:47:14 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 05:36:11 EST References: <2974@allegra.UUCP> <>, <271@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.politics:6573 net.rec:181 -- [Sunny Kirsten] >> Fact is, Handguns never kill anyone. >> People kill People, and they use a variety of tools to do so. Perhaps. If armed with knives, clubs, or nothing at all, people who kill must feel the destruction of another's flesh (unless they're drugged into oblivion). With a gun, though, you can shoot at an abstraction, deal death at a distance. People who fire guns at others may not, in their own minds, be killing real individuals. But I don't know, I've never done it. Are there any war vets, ex-cops, or other folks out there who have intentionally fired a gun at a person? -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 03 Jan 85 [14 Nivose An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7188 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***