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From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: rape and firearms and death
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Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 01:08:24 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 20 01:08:24 1985
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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.
 To which Sunney Kristen responds:

> 
> Or a decrease in the standard of living of muggers and burglers.
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> 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
> 
> -- 
> {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)

    Good lord...give me a break...


                 ...it's times like these, I wish I was reading a good book.

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                           --- Rob DeMillo 
                               Madison Academic Computer Center
                               ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo

 
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