Re: Better people
Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Sun, 6 Jun 1999 20:00:14 -0500
Date sent: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 09:52:11 -0700
From: Cynthia <cyn386@flash.net>
To: extropians@extropy.com
Subject: Re: Better people
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> > > What a paradox. If people were ideal, we wouldn't need guns.
> > >
> > Yeah, if all people were responsible, competent and nonviolent, we
> > wouldn't need them, and there would be no problem with everyone
> > having them. But it's not a perfect world, so we need to try to keep
> > guns out of the hands of the insane, violent criminals and kids,
> > while taking care not to interfere with the freedoms of the
> > responsible.
>
> Until you give all the insane violent scary people, a free all expense paid vacation to some
> place very far away. I want to keep my weapons.
>
>
As long as you're not one of the insane violent scary people
yourself, okay.