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 (csdf) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Congratulations to the NRA Message-ID: <254@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 02:40:17 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.254 Posted: Fri Jun 21 02:40:17 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 06:17:04 EDT References: <484@gargoyle.UUCP> <7800340@inmet.UUCP> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP () Distribution: net.politics Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 33 Summary: In article <7800340@inmet.UUCP> nrh@inmet.UUCP writes: >> >> The hail of bullets was responsible for 16,575 suicides, 13,841 murders, >> 1,756 accidental deaths, 540 undetermined deaths and 276 killing by >> law enforcement agents. (In 1982) >for them, but...), These deaths were caused by one of two other causes >(certainly not bullets): > > cause #1: No armor. Clearly, the fools have neglected to wear > bullet-proof armor. After all, if they had..... > > 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 CSDF@MIT-VAX "The Church of Fred has yet to come under attack. No one knows about it." -Rev. Wang Zeep