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From: david@randvax.UUCP (David Shlapak)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: re: Gun Control
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Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 13:25:34 EST
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> > Any clever twelve year old can make his own gun with a few hours work.
> > 
> > How do you control the zip gun, Dave?
> > 
> > - Phil Lavette
> 
>     Blah, blah, blah, blah-blah-blah-blah, blah... except on the "Rockford
>     Files" and other such real-life adventures, I've never heard of anyone
>     being killed by a "zip gun."
> 
>     Why do we need to control the "zip gun," Phil?
> 
> 				    --- das

Note that the missing predicate to my argument is that, while no one (or at
least damn few) folks are ever hurt by "zip guns", my newspaper is filled
with stories of people getting greased by the beloved handgun.

								--- das