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From: lonetto@phri.UUCP (Michael Lonetto)
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Subject: Re: rape and firearms and death
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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 18:38:36 EDT
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> In article <200@ihlpl.UUCP> zubbie@ihlpl.UUCP (Jeanette Zobjeck) writes:
> >> 
> >> > 	2) Someone who has not given thought to the "wild-west theory"
> >> > 	of social relationships.
> >ie
> >If - Everyone wore a gun on their hip
> >	THEN - people would be more polite in general.
> >
> >(This doesn't and can't work for obvious reasons but I have heard it
> 
> What are these "obvious" reasons? Before you flame right back, let me
> point you to an article that appeared on the front page of the Wall
> Street Journal some years ago, before the Russian invasion of
> Afghanistan. It was a background, travelogue-style piece on Afghanistan,
> which at that time was seldom mentioned in world news and was considered
> exotic and unknown.
> 
> This article explicitly and specifically stated that Afghan society was
> more polite in interpersonal relations, and that petty crime was
> practically unknown, due *precisely* to the Afghan habit of ALWAYS going
> armed, no matter where you went. This is exactly the "wild west theory"
> stated above, and I think this one reference is all that is needed to
> prove that it is correct!

I wish to hell people would stop encouraging gun toting.  There is already
so much shooting in my neighborhood that the thought of EVERYONE being 
armed is devastating.  I think if everyone carried a gun in NYC, or any
major city, all it would generate is an increase in the standard of living
of funeral directors.
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