From: "Joe E. Dees" <joedees@bellsouth.net>
To: extropians@extropy.com
Date sent: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:59:36 -0600
Subject: Re: near anything boxes allowed to br in the hands of the public?
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> Date sent: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:23:41 -0800
> From: Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net>
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: near anything boxes allowed to br in the hands of the public?
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> > Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone ever hear of an invention by an Australian Physicist who invented a hand held "rifle" called Metal Storm? This is/was an electo-static gun that pushed out (potentially)
> >
> > Ja, there was a system devised that had a fire rate that high. It had
> > a single barrel that packed a slug, a charge, a slug, a charge, alternating
> > its length. As I recall it fired 32 projectiles in 20 milliseconds, something
> > like that. Is that what you meant? spike
> >
> >
> Little boys are fascinated by guns, sometimes firing them at little
> girls.
>
Apropos of that sad incident (the six-year-old boy taking a gun to
elementary school and gunning down the six-year-old girl who was a
classmateof his in the first grade), I saw an editorial cartoon of a weeping
man labeled the NRA, who was moaning, "That poor defenseless little girl!
If only she had had a gun of her own..."
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