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From: frye@cuuxa.UUCP (frye)
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Subject: Charles Lambert's retirement
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 22:48:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 22:48:46 1985
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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














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