Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site inmet.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!yale!inmet!nrh From: nrh@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Congratulations to the NRA Message-ID: <7800345@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Jun-85 02:35:00 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.7800345 Posted: Sun Jun 30 02:35:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 05:30:47 EDT References: <481@gargoyle.UUCP> Lines: 31 Nf-ID: #R:gargoyle:-48100:inmet:7800345:000:1508 Nf-From: inmet!nrh Jun 30 02:35:00 1985 >/**** inmet:net.politics / mit-vax!csdf / 2:40 am Jun 21, 1985 ****/ >In article <7800340@inmet.UUCP> nrh@inmet.UUCP writes: >> cause #2: (the real killer) Fingers. Yes, friends, it makes as >> much sense to blame fingers as it does to blame a "hail of >> bullets" (as in: "The hail of bullets"). After all, if trigger >> fingers were just safely amputated, we wouldn't have these >> deaths, would we? Oh sure, some stupid libertarian, or other >> mangey, hairy eyed academic-government type with too quick a mind >> might point out that people would use other fingers, but that >> can be dismissed out of hand, right? The article above >> probably be re-published with the phrase: >> "The press of pinkies was responsible for....." > >The problem is the gun attached to the trigger finger, not the person. >It is impossible for untrained people to kill with their bare pinkies. >Similarly it is impossible for an idiot to post a pro-gun message >without a terminal. > >-- >Charles Forsythe Well, Charles? Does this mean you were able to post an anti-gun message without use of a terminal? 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.