Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wjafyfe From: wjafyfe@watmath.UUCP (Andy Fyfe) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.rec Subject: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA Message-ID: <10827@watmath.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 20:18:55 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.10827 Posted: Thu Jan 10 20:18:55 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 08:22:33 EST References: <2974@allegra.UUCP> <1912@sun.uucp> <2504@CSL-Vax.ARPA> <1924@sun.uucp> Reply-To: wjafyfe@watmath.UUCP (Andy Fyfe) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.politics:6690 net.rec:195 Summary: In article <1924@sun.uucp> sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) writes: >This country was founded on the principle of rugged individualism and >self sufficiency and self-responsibility. I see you're too much of a >wimp to watch out for your own life, and so would have the government >deprive the rest of us of our constitutional right to defend ourselves >against the nuts you keep seeing fit to release on the street, no >matter how many times they commit violent crimes. You obviously also >have never lived outside an urban area or you'd realize that the police >can't do a damn thing to keep your ass alive, and will merely come >after the fact to mop you up and file reports and explain (not very) >sadly to your widow how you died. For those of us who have lived or do >live in rural areas, there simply aren't enough police to go around, >nor would we want to live in the required police state to have same, >and we feel we must take responsibility for our own lives, and protect >our own asses from death at the hands of some nut you city folk have >released after he's committed numerous crimes against humanity. There >is NO substitute for a handgun in the defense of your own life. >Although it might seem to you to be a bad idea to have everyone >wandering around the city with a sidearm on their hip, there is no >substitute in the country. If Sunny's representative, I not sure graduate school in the US is such a good idea! --andy fyfe ...!{decvax, allegra, ihnp4, et. al}!watmath!wjafyfe wjafyfe@waterloo.csnet