Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site snow.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!qtlon!flame!ubu!snow!rjc From: rjc@snow.UUCP (R.caley) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Gun control (Durr I'm confused!) Message-ID: <319@snow.UUCP> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 04:11:38 EST Article-I.D.: snow.319 Posted: Sat Jan 12 04:11:38 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 01:02:27 EST References: <363@hercules.UUCP> Organization: Computer Science Department, Warwick University, UK Lines: 34 A simple question - can anyone tell me why they would want to own a gun? There are 3 uses for a gun (hand or other) i) A book end - They arn't very stable maybe a doorstop is closer ii) Target shooting - This is a valid one and is done by a small number of people,though video games are cheeper for a game of hand/eye co-ordination. iii) Killing things! - appart from the small number of people who kill to live (either for food or to sell produce) this is odd - anyone who gets their fun from killing things is in need of psyciatric attention (to say the least). NOTICE eating what you kill is not a justification of (iii) but needing the food is (sorry to any vegitarians out there I see no moral difference between killing a rabbit and killing a cabbage - both are just as alive you can only pick on nutritional needs or personal preference). In conclution 1) Cabbages are cute (I never eat them). 2) Use beer bottles for book ends. :-) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In the beginning was a flame ...... " Paul Kantner. .......... mcvax!ukc!flame!ubu!snow!rjc [ Any opinions in the above crawled in while I wasn't looking ]