From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sat Apr 03 1999 - 09:45:51 MST
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> >> But an argument I raised previously when I argued that Zed and his
> >> varmint gun would be useless against tanks and mortars, but if we gave
> >> every Tom, Dick and Zed their own tanks and mortars that it would be a
> >> sad day for the corner convenience stores.
>
> > Hardly. Quite the opposite in fact, since Storekeeper Joe would have his
> > own tank, mortar and machine gun emplacements if he so chose to, or he
> > had an insurance policy with a security agency which did so. People are
> > the most polite and respectful of property when there are arms present.
> > This is vouched for the high levels of property crime in europe and us
> > cities compared to rural areas.
>
> No need to go to Europe to confirm that: just look at the LA riots.
> The only stores in untouched were those Korean-owned shops who had
> armed owners outside to keep the looters at a distance.
Yes, the dissapointing thing was that the LA cops arrested more Korean shop
owners for shooting people than actual rioters who killed people.
--
TANSTAAFL!!!
Michael Lorrey, President
Lorrey Systems
------------------------------------------------------------
mailto:mike@lorrey.com
------------------------------------------------------------
"A society which trades freedom for some measure of security
shall wind up with neither." -----Benjamin Franklin
"The tree of Liberty should be watered from time to time
with the blood of tyrants and patriots."
-----Thomas Jefferson
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security
of a Free State, the Right of the People to keep and bear
arms shall not be infringed." -----US Constitution,
2nd Amendment
"You can have my gun when you pry it out of my cold, dead
hands..." -----Anonymous
"Once we got their guns away from them, taking their
money was REAL easy." -----Unknown North Korean
Commissar
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:03:28 MST