Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!josh From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Guns as Protection Message-ID: <885@topaz.ARPA> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 03:20:27 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.885 Posted: Wed Mar 6 03:20:27 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 04:07:25 EST References: <> <352@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <859@topaz.ARPA> <322@talcott.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 25 > > 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