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From: benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Thomas Cox)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: Shoot your children
Message-ID: <657@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Sep-86 13:55:29 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 28 13:55:29 1986
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Reply-To: benn@sphinx.UUCP (Thomas Cox)
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What?  This doesn't belong in this newsgroup?  Oh, but I'm just writing a
follow-up, see.  It's not MY fault.  Blame ol' what's-his-na DON'T SHOOT ME!

In article <586@zeus.UUCP> rob@dadla.tek.com (Rob Vetter) writes:

>	Then there's the situation where the guy across the street
>	from me gave his wife a gun to protect herself (he works
>	nights).  She kept it under her pillow in case of an intruder.
>	Her daughter forgot to say "Mommy" when she entered the room
>	having to go to the bathroom - she almost got blown away.
>
>	One vote for NO loaded guns in the house with kids.
>
>Rob Vetter
>(503) 629-1044
>[ihnp4, ucbvax, decvax, uw-beaver]!tektronix!dadla!rob

My roommate reads articles aloud to me from the Chicago Tribune.  Recently
there was one about somebody shooting his grandson at home in the middle 
of the night with all the lights out.  I said something like:

	"If you're dumb enough to shoot in the dark, then you might
	 as well shoot your kids, because you're too stupid to deserve
	 to reproduce.  It's just increasing the IQ of the gene pool."

But was I being serious?  Should I be repeating this?  Should I do it in
soc.singles?  Probably not, but what can be done about it?

	"Somebody might shoot you, Tom."

This is a good point.  Followups to /dev/null.

-= Thomas Cox =-
...ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!benn