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Subject: Re: Replying to Gun Nuts Propaganda
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Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 11:56:58 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 19 11:56:58 1987
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In article <3117@bellcore.bellcore.com> tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) writes:
>In article <4226@well.UUCP> howeird@well.UUCP (Howard Stateman) writes:
>$ 
>$ [...]
>$ Listen you bozo, the reason for the whole flaming revolutionary war was
>$ to kick out the redcoats, who kept putting restrictions on the People.
>$ One of those restrictions was the right to have your own personal arsenal.
>$ English law prohibiting the rank and file from owning hand guns dates
>$ back to when England was a colonial power, and they didn't like the
>$ idea of the colonists pointing guns at the bureaucrats.
>$ So using their murder stats to back up an argument to ban handguns is
>$ pretty dumb.
>
>Good point, Howard.  It is fundamentally wrong to restrict our
>right to point a gun at a beaurocrat and the British haven't realized
>it yet.  Too bad for them.  I, along with you and probably most of
>the net, am very happy that we Americans can do it any day without
>fear of prosecution.
>

In ancient scandinavia, a kind was *REQUIRED* to walk the length of his country
once a year without protection. If he made it, he was king for another year.

Ok, Ronnie, let's see you walk.

== These ideas are mine. MINE!