Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpl!zubbie From: zubbie@ihlpl.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: rape and firearms Message-ID: <200@ihlpl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 19:46:06 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpl.200 Posted: Mon Jul 8 19:46:06 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 07:13:13 EDT References: <191@cuuxa.UUCP> <2919@sdcc3.UUCP> <2301@sun.uucp> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 28 > > 1) A devout member of the NRA complete with pro-firearms > > bumper stickers. > > What's wrong with that? What most of these people advocate (actively or through implied consent of the activist statements) is unworkable for the average person who has never seen nor fired a hand weapon at another person. > > > 2) Someone who has not given thought to the "wild-west theory" > > of social relationships. > > I apologize for my ignorance, but what's the "wild-west theory"? > > Gregg Mackenzie > denelcor!gmack ie If - Everyone wore a gun on their hip THEN - people would be more polite in general. (This doesn't and can't work for obvious reasons but I have heard it voiced at parties and in discussions often enough -- Jeanette Zobjeck ihnp4!ihlpl!zubbie