Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cuuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!nwuxg!cuuxc!cuuxa!frye From: frye@cuuxa.UUCP (frye) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Charles Lambert's retirement Message-ID: <221@cuuxa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 22:48:46 EDT Article-I.D.: cuuxa.221 Posted: Wed Jul 3 22:48:46 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 05:02:21 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Technologies CSD, Lisle, Il. Lines: 90 Mr. Lambert, I hope you are not paying any attention to the numbers you see in the newspapers or hear on the television. It was discovered that these media are rabidly anti-firearms and just lump all firearms related killings into one pile. That means justified police shootings, unjustified police shootings, justified civilian shootings, unjustified civilian shootings and criminal shootings. I can only back your feeling up on the unjustified and criminal classifications of the above. There is no way (not with the criminal court system we presently have anyway) to take the guns out of the hands of the criminal element of the society. Don't be stupid. criminals do not care that there are already laws on the books preventing their legal ownership of firearms. Also, if they couldn't get them any other way they'd just make them. I made a firearm. It isn't hard at all. It works just fine. BTW, making that firearm was legal, I can make one legally. I can't "go into manufacturing" legally but, I can make one. There is something else that, for some reason, you fail to understand. This society has the foolish notion that it should feed and house its criminal element instead of eliminating the jerks. Society also fails to see the fact that we have a lot of criminals who need shooting and NO honest citizens who need robbing, raping, or who need to be assaulted. I have firearms and haven't shot anyone yet. That's because noone has broken in on me in the middle of the night, noone has tried to mug me, noone has actually grabbed a lady I was with (although I was a little worried one night downtown {but, that's another story}), I haven't caught anyone trying to rape a three year old. Yeh, I have been in a fight or two but, I didn't pull the gun. (We whumped on each other a few times and got tired of it. Just a misunderstanding in the first place.) Just drop the "ban the gun" bullshit. There are too many firearms owners out there who won't dust anyone (about 99.9% of them. No I don't remember where I read that.) unless someone tries to take the guns away from them. BTW Charles, why do you think it is that all those people out there want guns for self defence? Could it be that they feel the government isn't doing its part to protect them? Don't you think that, if the government eliminated the NEED for private gun ownership, maybe at least some of those folks would get rid of their firearms? You get me my own personal cop to follow me wherever I go to protect me and I won't need mine for my protection. Be realistic Charles, we don't have a gun problem in this country. We have a criminal and government problem. Dean Martin got caught carrying a concealed firearm. The press asked him if he thought everyone should carry a gun. He said, "No, not everyone, just me." Keep outa my gun locker, Charles. T. R. Frye -