Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf 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 Lines: 33 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