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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Congratulations to the NRA
Message-ID: <311@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 16:01:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.311
Posted: Wed Jul  3 16:01:38 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 05:52:31 EDT
References: <481@gargoyle.UUCP> <7800345@inmet.UUCP>
Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 

In article <7800345@inmet.UUCP> nrh@inmet.UUCP writes:

>Well, Charles?  Does this mean you were able to post an anti-gun message
>without use of a terminal? 

Uri Geller helped me doing using mind control (see current net.philosphy flame :-)

>Not that I'm a "soldier of fortune" type, but I can imagine several ways
>to kill people using my bare pinkies ("pinkies" here refers to trigger
>fingers, as it did in my article).  That you, who are apparently unable
>to duplicate this mental effort, should presume to dictate that pinkies
>are safe but guns are not, (given that neither is lethal short of human
>impulse or fantastic accident) disturbs me.

Okay! Okay! This is the SECOND response I have gotten insisting that
pinkies are deadly weapons. Here is my final response:

I challenge you to a fight. That's right. You will have all of your
fingers taped down (except pinkies). You may use only your pinkies. I
will be totally unarmed except for a small handgun. May the best man
win.

Sheesh. Sometimes I wonder if people can see the forest through the
trees. I was making a point! I know some martial arts as well as some
anatomy and lots of physics... I KNOW pinkies could be used as weapons
but still...

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"The Church of Fred has yet to come under attack.
    No one knows about it."
        -Rev. Wang Zeep