Re: Ooh a gun fight!! (Was Re: near anything boxes allowed...)

From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 15:05:19 MST


Zero Powers wrote:

> >From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
> >
> >You have a point? Don't even try to start a gun rights flame war with
> >me.
>
> I don't do flame wars. Thanks anyway.

Good, I don't want to have more than one person on my roundfile filter anyways.

> >Facts are that guns are what keeps as many people in this country in
> >circulation as possible. Proven fact, undeniable. Largest statistical
> >database examined to date (and the most unbiased one).
>
> What database? Where can I see it for myself. If as you say, it is really
> "undeniable" then I won't deny it. I doubt however that there is any such
> "proven" and "undeniable" evidence.

FBI Database of Crime Statistics, 1979 to 1995.

> >I can also retort
> >that there should be more hateful cartoons about people and groups that
> >think that law abiding citizens have no right to defend their lives
> >against criminals.
>
> As to the need for such cartoons, suit yourself. As for the words you seem
> to be trying to put in my mouth, I never said, or suggested, any such thing.

You quite vehemently supported the same for the opposition. If you don't like it
one way, don't support the other..

> >Do you really want to continue?
>
> Only if you can turn down the posturing and the rhetoric and turn up the
> facts and a *reasonable* debate.

I didn't start it, you did. I'm all for reasonable debate. Just the facts.

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TANSTAAFL!!!

Michael S. Lorrey Director, Grafton County Fish & Game Assoc. http://www.lorrey.com/gcfga/ Member, Extropy Institute http://www.extropy.org Member, National Rifle Association http://www.nra.org "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils." - General John Stark



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