From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Thu Jun 03 1999 - 13:30:33 MDT
I bought my first gun a few months ago, just got my concealed
carry permit. I was pro-self-defense before, but the list and
some real life friends convinced me to actually get one.
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> I thought not.
> >> This is pointless.
> >
> > On the contrary, I changed Grant Sparks' mind, for starters.
> > Mike Lorrey
>
> FWIW, I was pro-regulation for most of my adolescence; my mother
> worshipped Jimmy Carter. I was swayed by argument to the side of
> freedom, and have since swayed her to it. It does happen. I
> still haven't talked her into cryonics, though.
>
> --
> Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>
> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
> are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
> for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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