From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 26 2:39:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sblake.comcen.com.au (sblake.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C8237B765 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 02:39:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aunty@sblake.comcen.com.au) Received: (from aunty@localhost) by sblake.comcen.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA22352; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:40:27 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from aunty) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:40:27 +1000 From: aunty To: Mark Ovens Cc: Doug Barton , Jay Nelson , Paul Richards , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Guns and impotence [was: dangers to intelligent people] Message-ID: <20000326204027.A21684@comcen.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Ovens , Doug Barton , Jay Nelson , Paul Richards , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <38DB8D34.1A750C81@originative.co.uk> <20000325104927.B234@parish> <38DD2C3F.3F17470B@gorean.org> <20000325214724.B234@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000325214724.B234@parish> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:47:25PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 01:14:39PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > As an example, just look at what is happening in Australia. They > > systematically disarmed their citizens, first going after "assault" > > weapons, then handguns, rifles, shotguns, etc. All with perfectly > > reasonable sounding arguments about how much safer they would be. Now > > that the citizens can't fight back they are slowly but surely turning it > > into a police state. Draconinan censorship of the internet, and other > > extremely distasteful laws are being passed willy-nilly. The two are unrelated, or not in the sense you imply. Our current government is so despised that for the first time in our history most Aussies would love to get stuck into the PM, but the queue to do so would be so long that only a gun could reach the distance. Few of us have guns, but hey, why take chances. A while ago a bloke went crazy with a gun when he thought he saw a crowd of prime ministers, and the laws changed pretty quick after that, especially when the gun owners realised they could get the governmenet to buy back their old guns for more than they were worth. > That's an extremely cynical view. I don't know about Australian gun > law, perhaps someone from Oz would like to comment. Hardly anyone has guns in our cities. They're not game to. You see, it's a cultural thing. The only city people I've known to have guns have been pissy little cowardly men who need a gun to make them feel potent. If you're a city bloke and you feel you need a gun, there must be something wrong with you. If you're a sheila you never need a gun. Just find the sissy who's dependent on a gun and he's a push-over, the paranoid little runt, sit on his hands and you can poke out his eyes with a finger. Then any normal man who can get up without an extra tool will be able to protect you when the bloke with the prosthetic device calls Mama to chase you away. But pathetic little gun weenies are real hard to find in the big towns. I guess in the USA it's the good guys who carry the guns. It wouldn't be fair to compare the two then. :,) -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message