Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-pundit!black From: black@pundit.DEC (DON BLACK DTN 261-2739 MS: NIO/N13 LOC: POLE C6) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: More of the saga Message-ID: <3366@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 13:50:53 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3366 Posted: Tue Jul 30 13:50:53 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Aug-85 20:06:39 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 92 >JoSH writes: >> Black signs himself: >> >> Member, >> American Pistol & Rifle Association >> >> and Forsythe, pretending to quote the signature, renders it: >> >> American Pistol, Nazi & Rifle Association > >> No comment. > >This may very well be a cheap shot at the American Pistol & Rifle >Association. It is, however, a perfectly appropriate shot at Don Black. >[Isaac Dimitrovsky] It's too bad that the net has to be subjected to "Ad Hominem" slurs. But I suppose if They let me on the net, They can let this kind of crap continue. C'est la guerre, n'est-ce pas? But anyway.... I'm not out to win any popularity contests, and I make d___ed few apologies. Whenever I read something that is blatantly and obviously incorrect, unjust, or unfair, I--in fact, we all--have an obligation to attempt to set the record straight. Sometimes that takes "a pair of brass ones." Sometimes our own information is flawed. Sometimes we end up changing our opinions. Sometimes we're absolutely wrong. Remember how Hitler worked in Germany? First he went for one group, and nobody spoke up. Then he went for another, and nobody spoke up. And so on, until Germany was both levelled and partially enslaved. It can happen here too. So I speak up. One of my favorite topics is firearms. Of any invention under the sun, they are the most unloved and the most controversial of all. But yet, they are a block of steel, wood, plastic, or aluminum--nothing more. Left to their own accords, they lay there and corrode--nothing more. Every nation on this planet owes its existance to firearms. But they're Something Awful That Goes Bump In The Night, and nobody should have one. I mean, really now--no American needs one. There's plenty of police around to protect us, right? After all, two students were shot on the Harvard Bridge and one was shot in Kenmore Square and three more were held up at gunpoint. What a great job those cops did! Why, I'll bet the Black-and-White was right there and arrested all those nasty pistol- packin' hoodlums and took them right off to MCI Walpole! (My apologies to any police officer who reads this.) Now don't forget, you have to make sure those pistols get tried and convicted. Gotta put 'em away for good, you know. That sweet, innocent little felon was really a good boy who had a bad homelife, and we have to understand him. You gotta understand, too, that our Military Establishment has to job of protecting our shores. The Private Citizen has no business owning a mean old assault rifle. ("They're no good for hunting. They're only meant to kill people." Ad nauseam.) Now, when Ivan gets here, we're all supposed to stand back and let the National Guard take care of the situation, aren't we? We pay them for that, don't we? Ummm, just for chuckles sometime, check out the federal laws concerning the Militia, I believe it's found in 10 USCS 311 and 312---some Legal Beagle can correct me if I'm wrong. These sections spell out the differences between the Military, the Organized Militia (ie., the National Guard), and the Unorganized Militia (ie., all male citizens between the ages of 17 and 45). Surprise, surprise! You might get drafted without even registering! Enough of this balderdash for now. The Distinguished Spokesman from Cow Hampshire relinquishes the soapbox to ******************Fill in the blank******************************************* PS-- Various people on the net love that term "Nazi." I'm a dummy. I don't understand what a Nazi is. Let's all see if somebody on the net can come up with a definition of the term. Let's also see if somebody knows who the first Nazi was. Tune in again for fore of the continuing saga. --Don Black