From: torban@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Torban Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NO MORE *&#*$(^*& FEMALE BIMBO ADS!!!!!!!!
Date: 23 Dec 1992 02:07:51 GMT
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mikeh@starnine.com (Mike Haas) writes:

>In article <torban.723461608@csuvax1> torban@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Torban Bennett) writes:

[keeping it short]
[something about waiting peroids, ending with...]

>The constitution is subverted by waiting periods.  Remember that.

Uh, mm...right.  Ok then  (?)

>>The US has probably the greatest gun freedom of any civilised country.
>>They also have probably the greatest crime problem involving guns in any
>>civilised country.

>Sweden requires every house to have a sub-machine gun and enjoy low
>crime rates.

I did not know this.  In fact if this this is true, consider me
amazed.  I'm speechless...

>England strongly retricts firearm ownership and suffers a terrible
>crime rate.

A terrible crime rate?  I didn't know this either.  I wouldn't have thought
it was anywhere near the US.  Again consider me stunned.....

>View the crime rate in Washington D.C where it has been illegal to
>buy a handgun for years.

Ok, I hear this one a bit.  But if you're not checked at the state's
borders (maybe you are, I don't know) people could easily shop next
'door'.  I feel that having 2 or 3 states with strong gun laws, surrounded
by nearly 50 without, isn't going to give a good argument.

[media violence]

>But how many times can you see someone killed on TV tonight?  How
>many violent acts, exploitation of women, exposure to drugs are our
>youths barraged with?

Yes!  _That_ is a good point, it leads to another can of worms.

>They'll refuse to broadcast the Olympics shootin matches (one of
>the oldest and most popular events), and yet will blast that
>garbage on that screen all night.  It's phenomonally disgusting!

Really?  That does sound a little over the top!

[me, jumping to conclusions]

>A few years ago, the town of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law
>REQUIRING every home to have some kind of gun.  In the years since,
>the crime rate of that town has dropped like a rock.

Wow!  Thats an interesting law.  Frankly, I'm flaberghasted!

>Another town in Illinios did the opposite... banned guns completely,
>the result?  Their crime rate soared.

>I'm not making a bit of this up... it is factual and verifyable.

>Don't be short-sighted and jump to easy-fix conclusions.  There
>are many elderly that rely on a firearm to protect themselves
>in their home.  And firearms are used to PREVENT almost
>a million crimes in America each year.  That's FBI statistics,
>folks.

[guns in Oz]

>Well, I'm glad that America was established with less restrictive laws.
>To me, that's oppressive.  If I obey the law, if I cause no one harm...
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
oouu, help me.  I'm being opressed  ;-)

>the government has no right to prevent me from protecting myself
>with a firearm if that is what I deem necessary.

>I am innocent until proven guilty in this country.  I have no
>problem with my government keeping guns from felons... but
>they better leave mine alone.

>America was established to free us from such oppression.  It is
>based on F-R-E-E-D-O-M.

Oh well, I'll admit your post was interesting, until I hit the ol'
"God, aren't we great"  Yes I keep forgetting that the US in the _only_
country in the world where freedom exists.  Sorry, I'll try not to
think of myself as free ever again. Promise ;-)

>Wake up.  Go out and communicate with some gun owners.

BBBRRINNGGGGGG!!!!  Uhh, what...oh...time to get up.  Man that
coffee smells good.      Wow I had some
weird dream that the whole world was oppressed and only the good ol'
US of A was still F-R-E-E.  
Anyway, whats this...BLAZEFLAMER (Tm) has been running all night
uh oh, better check the news.

Torban Bennett -- torban@murdoch.edu.AU --->
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