Re: Guns and Slaves
Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Fri, 28 May 1999 18:29:17 -0500
Date sent: Thu, 27 May 1999 19:20:47 -0500
To: extropians@extropy.com
From: Chuck kuecker <ckuecker@mcs.net>
Subject: Re: Guns and Slaves
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> At 05:43 PM 5/27/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Date sent: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:05:15 -0700
> >To: extropians@extropy.com
> >From: James Rogers <jamesr@best.com>
> >Subject: Re: Guns and Slaves
> >Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> >
> >> At 03:31 PM 5/27/99 -0500, Joe Dees wrote:
> >> >
> >> >Do you feel that the prohibition against owning a thermonuclear
> >> >weapon, or Anthrax bacillus, or Sarin, or C-4, or Botulinin toxin, or
> >> >even a submachine gun, renders you a slave? Then you have a
> >> >pretty stultified and monochromatic view of what freedom's all about.
> >>
> >>
> >> It doesn't render you a slave, but it makes you an easy mark for those that
> >> would enslave you.
> >>
> >Slavery is illegal here.
>
> So is murder, rape, drug use...what is your point?
>
Slavery takes a large and generally unconcealable support system.
> >>
> >> The difference between a free man without a means to defend himself and a
> >> slave is vanishingly small; they are separated only by random circumstance
> >> that neither control.
> >>
> >The difference between a free man and a dead one is one person
> >with a gun who shouldn't have it.
>
> Perhaps in the case of a free criminal who kills an unarmed man with his
> illegally obtained weapon. What about the man who defends his life and wins
> against the same criminal?
>
it is better that the criminal not have the gun so no one gets shot.
At least make it harder for him. As for the person who is NOT a
violent criminal, mentally defivcient and/or deranged, a spouse
and/or child abuser, or a child, I have no problem with them having
guns. I DO have a problem with morons arguing against a position
I did not take.
>
> Chuck Kuecker
>
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