Date sent: Mon, 24 May 1999 04:11:25 -0700 (PDT) From: mark@unicorn.com To: extropians@extropy.com Subject: Re: Property Rights Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> Joe E. Dees [joedees@bellsouth.net] wrote:
> >The very same tactic the Inquisitionists, Nazis and antiabortionists
> >use: First demonize those who disagree with you, call them villains
> >and consciousless subhumans; then you can feel righteous pride
> >when you kill them, rather than guilt or shame.
>
> And then:
> >You must be the kind of 2nd amendment gun nut who would dearly
> >love to kill all those "different' people whom you suspect of looking
> >at you sideways, and who fervently believes that those two
> >Colorado kids were a sinister Bradyite plant.
>
> Joe, how about you stop projecting the worst aspects of your personality
> onto the rest of us? Just because you can't see someone think differently
> without wanting to kill them doesn't mean that we can't. Indeed, us 'gun
> nuts' want to allow all those different people to own guns to protect
> themselves; to a rational mind I would have thought that would rather
> indicate that we're not actually intending to kill them... unlike the
> disarmers, who've been murdering 'different' people all century long.
>
> Mark
>
I was tired of hearing the raving randian bastards on this list label
everybody who disagreed with the slightest scintilla of their pet
dogmas as evil vermin who should be exterminated for the greater
good, and figured they'd like a gander of getting goosed by the
same slimestick themselves to see how the fuck it feels to be
slandered by association with extremists. It's simply karmic tit-for-
tat; you don't do it to others, it doesn't get done back to you! And
it's the people with the guns who are shooting everybody (always
has been); they play this little "Shane" home movie in their heads
about how they're righteous people pushed too far by bullying
cliques, and the next thing you know, fifteen kids are lying dead in
school halls, and the gun lobby steps on its dick by claiming that if
a guard had a gun he coulda stopped them when one did and
couldn't, and Li'l Einstein Danny Quayle kisses Wayne LaPierre's
ring by saying he hoped the massacre wasn't used as an excuse
to restrict gun sales! FUCK excuses; it's a goddamned REASON!
Finally the Senate got a testicle transplant and put some
safeguards on the criminal flea market gun shows where two of the
guns were bought, and insists on safety locks so's if Junior nurses
a carelessly left automatic and plays with the trigger, he won't get
a lead lunch! About Damned Time!