Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!nrh From: nrh@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA Message-ID: <1874@inmet.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 03:37:53 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1874 Posted: Mon Jan 14 03:37:53 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 04:42:02 EST Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:sun:-191200:inmet:7800254:000:939 Nf-From: inmet!nrh Jan 5 13:37:00 1985 >***** inmet:net.politics / ihu1m!gadfly / 4:47 pm Jan 4, 1985 >-- >[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? Look, Ken. In the case of handgun-only control, these squeamish people you're talking about would NOT arm themselves with knives, but with long guns, or perhaps sawed-off shotguns. Those advocating controlling, or banning ALL such weapons, please say so.