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From: steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Missing Handgun
Message-ID: <531@qubix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 21:34:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 22 21:34:03 1983
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    Dear Karl,

    I commiserate with you on your injuries.   You are a fine upstanding
citizen of your community, and no doubt a good man all around.  However,
in response to your complaint that you had no handgun with which to
"protect" yourself, I would like to ask one question:

    What if the drunkard had a handgun??


    It seems to me that you got off very lightly, considering what a
similar family quarrel would turn into in a state where handguns are
legal.  Even if you survived the firefight with not a scratch, you would
have to live the rest of your life knowing that you killed a drunk man.

    The man that attacked you desprately needs psychiatric treatment,
an Anti-alchoism counceler, and a stiff jail sentence.   But now that
you have had a chance to cool off, do you think he deserves death?
Think about it.


Steven Maurer