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From: jc@mit-athena.UUCP (John Chambers)
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Subject: Re: personal defense
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 05:48:10 EDT
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What's this about "weapons" implying "uncivilized"?  There 
have been quite a lot of societies in which it was normal 
for large numbers (typically of free adult males) to routinely 
carry a weapon.  Some of these considered themselves "civilized".  
(And some were even so considered by their neighbors. :-)

On the other hand, there are some very uncivilized parts of 
the world right now (Chicago :-) where weapons are restricted 
to a small class, usually only police and bodyguards for the
very rich.

How about another suggestion:  In a truly civilized society,
nobody would care whether or not you were carrying a weapon.

How about working on the problem (violence) rather than just
talking about suppressing the symptoms (weapons)?

-- 

			John Chambers [...!decvax!mit-athena]

He who has made no mistakes has probably made nothing at all.