From: kossack@owlnet.rice.edu (Jordan Marc Kossack)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: FREE 1-YEAR NRA... enough allready!!
Date: 14 Aug 1992 01:04:21 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.canada
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Organization: Rice University

In article <cthong.713669756@sfu.ca> cthong@fraser.sfu.ca (Christopher Thong) writes:
- HEH.HEH..AHHHMMMM..
- S"PORE IS A CULTURALLY DIVERSE ISLAND SOCIO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
- WITH A LAND AREA ROUGHLY THE SIZE OF GREATER VANCOUVER AND A LARGER
- POPULATION. WE"VE HAD OUR NAME LONGER THAN YOU'VE HAD YOUR CANADIAN
- IDENTITY. YOU'VE GOT A GREAT COUNTRY HERE BUT BRUSH UP ON YOUR GEOGRAPHY
- MY MISINFORMED FRIEND.

	Perhaps you ought brush up on _your_ geography.  Texas in not 
   in Canada.  Further, my 'Canadian identity' is a somewhat questionable 
   matter.  My mother and brother are indeed Canadian citizens, but I 
   was born and raised in the States.  Ipso facto, I am not Canadian. 

- My views on why people would feel safer in a country where firearms 
- are prohibited are supported by these points.
- - i feel safer in my country because there, i can rely on the police
-  (who incidentally are not goon-squad commies as you might think..heh)

	Do the police not use firearms?  Please explain how police use 
   of firearms differs from private citizen use?  Training is not the 
   issue, since I fire several hundred rounds each month - significantly 
   more that most police departments require officers practice with per  
   year.  Accidents?  In that respect, firearms are safer tha automobiles. 
   Please justify your claims.  Further, regardless of your baseless 
   insinuations of what I may think of the police, the riots in LA proved 
   that, in the States at least, the private citizen can not rely on the 
   police for protection.  The police chief ADMITS this fact.   

- to keep the area safe. in the event of any incident , i know i can 
- rely on my neighbours to look out for me as i look out for them.

	Do you really expect the elderly woman next door to overpower 
   a large teenager who attempts to hurt her?  I don't think she should 
   have to wrestle with a large male in order to avoid rape.  Thus, I 
   am PRO-CHOICE.  I support the right of a woman to own and to use a 
   firearm for self defense.  You lack of compassion is shocking.  I 
   suppose you think a woman should submit to rape.  Feh!   

- the cops meanwhile are only a 20 second phone call away.

	Do they TELEPORT to your house?  Beam me up Scotty!  

- keep your gun in your pocket? ... ha... funny.

	No ... I'm just happy to see you. 

- you obviously watch a lot of clint eastwood movies.

	Not many.  I am, however, going to see the new Eastwood 
   movie (Unforgiven) this weekend.  It's had good reviews.  

- you just learn to accept that as i accept your views , i don't have
- to agree with them , and i'm only speaking as another curious human
- being with some questions and points of his own wh feels that he isn't
- the ONLY one in this country who shares this opinion.
- AND KEEP MY COUNTRY OUT OF THIS UNTIL YOU GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT SIR!

	If you don't want your country to be discussed, why did 
   you bring up the subject.  Personally, I don't give a rat's 
   arse where you were born, what your ethnic background may be, 
   or such.  I base my perception of people on the way that they 
   behave.  So far, your lack of punctuation and such has simply 
   reinforced my impression of your ravings.  

	
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