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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape and firearms and death
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 15:27:27 EDT
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> 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.

Or a decrease in the standard of living of muggers and burglers.

> 
> Michael Lonetto  Public Health Research Institute,
> 455 1st Ave, NY, NY 10016  
> (allegra!phri!lonetto)
> 
> "BUY ART, NOT COCAINE"

I tend to agree that things get a little insane in the city, but there is
plenty of reason to keep a rifle rack in your pickup when you live in the
country.  Please keep your mind open and realize that what works for you
in your environment is not necessarily the optimal solution for others in
their environments.  It's time to recognize our constitutionally guaranteed
freedoms (including the right to bear arms, which cannot constitutionally
be infringed upon by the Feds, the State, the County, nor the City), and
stop trying to shove your preferred lifestyle down the throats of everyone
in the "United" states of amerika.

Personal Responsibility is the answer, not more governmental regulation.

				Sunny

p.s., I know cocaine isn't the answer to anything
	(except: q: "what *used* to be in 'classic' coca cola")
	but I'm not so sure that art is the universal answer either,
	nor necessarily appropriate to this forum nor discussion
	(though it does meet the requirement for a "cute" signoff).
-- 
{ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)