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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
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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!

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