Re: Take ten paces and then turn and fire!!

Kathryn Aegis (k_aegis@mindspring.com)
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 17:05:33

John Grigg wrote:
>I was just kidding on the idea of Mike and Joe duelling at ten paces! In
>relation to the gun control debate between Mike Lorrey and Joe Dees I just
>want to say both men have the right to discuss the matter but it does seem
>to have been beaten to death here on the list.

I was amazed to have returned after over a year's absence to find it still going on! And it had already turned ugly a few years ago. An essay posted to the extropian list, relating the gun debate to my own views on transhumanist tenets, had somehow been forwarded to an NRA listserve. Boy, was that a fun week--I gave up on trying to craft any rational reply to the emails that flooded in.

Attempts have been made to have moderated discussions of guns and gun control regulations on some of the more serious news shows here. Sadly, several of the spokespersons no longer are invited onto television because of their conduct during those discussions. I say sadly, because this is a discussion that badly needs to be had, publicly and rationally.

Kathryn Aegis