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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
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Subject: Re: Re: Guns as Protection
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 03:20:27 EST
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> > Right.  Because Chicago has a fascist gun control law, and the people
> ...
> > --JoSH
> 
> Yeah, almost as fascist as burning Jews.  Or to put it another way, clearly
> this man is doesn't know what "fascist" means.
> 			Greg Kuperberg

Greg is confusing "Fascist" with "Nazi" perhaps.  The Nazis killed (actually
mostly by gassing) Jews.  The word Fascist, both in its particular
application to a political party and in its historical roots, is Italian.
(It comes from "fascia", the bundle of rods + axe that were the symbol
of Roman magistrates.)  

Webster's says:  
fascism, n: 1: a political philosophy ... that exalts nation and race 
above the individual ... 2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of
strong autocratic or dictatorial control.

I claim that this is *exactly* how I intended to characterize Chicago's
gun laws.  Furthermore, I suspect that Greg (a) knows what I meant,
(b) knows what "fascist" in common usage means, and therefore (c)
was deliberately lying in claiming the opposite.

--JoSH