Date sent: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:40:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com> To: extropians@extropy.org Subject: [GUNS] Re: a comment Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
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> From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
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> >>Brian D Williams wrote:
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> >> The gun debate on this list always follows a predictable
> >>pattern.
> >> Someone tries to infect the list with the anti-gun meme and the
> >> immune system responds.
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> >I'm curious. Have you ever once converted an anti-gun person to
> >pro-gun? Have you ever "lost" an adherent by failing to respond
> >in time?
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> >I thought not.
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> >This is pointless.
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> Yes, I have converted someone who was previously anti-gun, but that
> is not the point. The point is to preserve constitutional rights
> and remove those laws which exist, and violate those rights.
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> I do not see the preservation of my rights as pointless.
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Nor the preservation of the rights of violent criminals, kids and the
certifiably insane to carry around the means to perpetrate longdistance
mass murder, apparently.
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> Brian
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