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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Control-Meta-Guns
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 21:15:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 21:15:17 1985
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Here is a set of quotes, reaching back into the gun-control argument,
that I found amusing.

Don Black, writing about a Massachusetts gun law, indulges in some 
poetic description:

     If we look closely at this Act, we find that it was pushed through the 
     legislature under pressure from the Hero of Chappaquiddick.

Charles Forsythe, ever the purist of network morals, is quick to defend
the net's unwritten law of strictly factual, unornamented language:

     This is a stupid, cheap shot.

Black signs himself:

     Member,
     American Pistol & Rifle Association

and Forsythe, pretending to quote the signature, renders it:

     >American Pistol, Nazi & Rifle Association

No comment.

--JoSH