majka@ubc-visi (08/31/83)
<< P-) ON >> Well, I agree that everyone has a right and an obligation to arm himself in order to be protected from all those weirdos in the streets and bars and National Parks and other dangerous places. But what good is a handgun? After all, what do you do if a whole bunch of those creeps attack you to steal your money any rape your wife and kick your dog and teach your kids evolution in school? Even with an hour of target practice a day, you could only pick off 2 or 3 of those rapists and murderers and communists before they were on you. You need some thing bigger. More powerful. So I think it is about time us honest god-fearing loyal patriotic hard-working citizens were allowed to carry small personal tactical nukes to protect our homes and families. Do you think some dirty smelly hippy is going to get close to you if you show hime your PTN? No way! He'll run back to his hole and you will never have to worry. And the same goes for even a gang of them. One PTN could clean out a whole city block! If we are ever going to have a safe and peaceful and just society, we have got to go for the nukes. Remember: Nukes don't kill people, people kill people << P-) OFF >> Boy, am I ever glad I live in Canada, where it is much harder for nitwits and loonys of all sorts to get guns. Marc Majka
david@tekid.UUCP (David Hayes) (09/01/83)
Boy, am I glad you live in Canada too!!!
bloom@inmet.UUCP (09/03/83)
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inmet!bloom Sep 2 18:46:00 1983
Personal Tactical Nukes are just over the horizon ... Litton now makes a
"Go Anywhere" microwave oven (hmm, let's see, need a reflector, a bypass
on the door safety switch, a BIG battery ... ).
or ...
Nuke a hot dog at the next (insert name of favorite baseball team here) game!
Ray Bloom
{harpo, ima}!inmet!bloombillp@bronze.UUCP (Bill Pfeifer) (09/28/83)
The following item has been posted to net.flame. It was pointed out to me,
that this belongs more properly into net.followup, since a lot of the
discussion has been going on here, and it's not a flame at all.
Apologies to those who see this item for the second time.
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>From an article in Wall Street Journal by Don B. Kates, Jr, a San Francisco
civil-liberties lawyer.
District of Columbia police were sued because somehow both "911" calls two
women had made to report that their house had been broken into and their
downstairs roomate was being raped got lost in the shuffle. The court
determined that for the next 14 hours all three were held captive, robbed
and sexually tormented.
...
...the court reiterates the universal and "fundamental principle of
American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty
to provide public services, such as police protection to any particular
citizen."
In lieu of a right to police protection, the District safeguards its
citizens by forbidding them to buy handguns or keep any gun to protect
home or business.
...
In the five years before the ban went into effect in 1977, homicide in
the District dropped almost 36%. But in the five subsequent years it
rose 16% (while decreasing 9% in neighboring Virginia - which has no such
law).
...
Faced with a drastic increase in rape, Florida police in Orlando instituted
a highly publicized program in 1966 in which 3,000 women received handgun
defense training. Rape statistics were down 90% by 1967, while aggravated
assault dropped 25% and burglary fell 24%. Although rape began to increase
again when the one-year program ended, even five years later it was still
13% below the 1966 figure. In the same period, rape in the surrounding
area had increased 308%. When a defensive firearms program for Detroit
grocers received wide publicity from the police chief's denunciations
and the shooting of seven robbers, grocery robberies dropped 90%.
...
...recall the Atlanta suburb that reacted to the Morton Grove, Ill. handgun
ban by requiring every sane, responsible head of household to keep a firearm.
Compared to the preceding year, burglary rose slightly in Morton Grove but
fell 73% in the Atlanta suburb.
...
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Bill Pfeifer
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