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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:40:20 EDT
From:         Mark Susskind <NY911179@PACEVM.BITNET>
Subject:      comments on stuff from the LISTSERV database

I have been reading POLITICS through the LISTSERV database, and I would like to
make some comments on the discussion, but nothing really in depth.

term limits:  I do not think that there should be term limits for the simple
              reason that it restricts voters' choices unnecessarily.  All
              candidates should have exposure and protection equity during
              their campaigns, but exposure and protection costs time and money
              (lots, if I am not mistaken), so equity is, pretty much, out of
              the question.
one party representative in the White House, but another party who dominates
Congress:  it should not really matter what a person's party affiliation is.
           We all have to work together to find out what is best for the
           country.  We either sink or swim as a nation; our vote is our voice
           as to how our nation should proceed.
gun control:  Though there are good intentions involved in gun control laws, it
              seems to turn out that the law abiding citizens would be the most
              hurt.  Like I tried to express last week, to whom should we give
              the power to regulate the right to speak, and the right to bear
              arms?  There would be a person or a body of people who would have
              so much power, that it will, most likely, be dangerous to the
              balance of this nation's citizens.
toothbrush?:  Well... a gun is designed to send a projectile forth at a high
              velocity.  It is well within the ability of the projectile to
              penetrate a wall, a door, a window, a person, and so on.  Many
              people seem to understand that this projectile, if it travels at
              a high enough velocity, can injure or kill a person.  On the
              other hand, a toothbrush is not designed to send a projectile
              forth at a high velocity.  If a toothbrush does send forth a
              projectile, it is a defective electric toothbrush; it probably
              will not be projected at a high velocity anyway, and certainly
              not enough so that it could injure or kill someone.
homosexual marriage?:  By all means!  Far be it for me to restrict people's
                       varied expressions of happiness.
                       "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" ;-)

Idealistically Yours,
Mark R. Susskind  <NY911179 @ PACEVM.BITNET>
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