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- From: nadja@jetsun.weitek.COM (Nadja Adolf)
- Subject: Re: the US elections...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.194256.24234@jetsun.weitek.COM>
- Organization: WEITEK Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
- References: <1992Nov11.083707.29169@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <7793@monmouth.edu> <1992Nov19.000049.19227@radian.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 19:42:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.000049.19227@radian.uucp> markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr) writes:
- >In article <7793@monmouth.edu> c1741@moncol.monmouth.edu (MICHAEL CARSON) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov11.083707.29169@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >>>altheimm@nextnet.csus.edu (Murray Altheim) writes:
- ><deleted>>
- >> At least in the Texas incident, the death toll would have been MUCH
- >>lower if there had been ONE armed, trained and responsible citizen in there.
-
- >I see. You want *everyone* packing a pistol.
-
- >Sorry, but *I* would suspect that if other people were carrying, you'd have
- >wound up with *many* more victims, from the gunfight. If, on the other hand,
- >a number of the people had said, "he's gonna kill me, I might as well die
- >stopping him", instead of just one person, he could have been stopped a lot
- >sooner. There are certainly plenty of people who would, even if packing,
- >have been afraid to reach for the gun, or use it, anyway.
-
- I doubt it. Most people aren't going to walk up on an armed person unarmed
- since the odds of their dying without stopping the assailant are minimal.
-
- >We don't need more guns, we need people willing to *do* something. I could
- >have sworn people *admired* Wyatt Earp when he instituted the "Dodge City
- >Rule". I thought they were under the impression it meant civilization had
- >come.
-
- Many people didn't like the Dodge City rule. Wyatt and his brothers were
- continuing to fight the Civil War in Dodge City. The rule was designed
- to make the Texans more vulnerable. Much of the lawlessness in Dodge was
- related to the fact that people seemed a tad unwilling to accept that the
- Civil War had ended. It is an old joke that people born after 1920 were the
- first generation to have not lived through the Civil War.
-
- BTW, Wyatt Earp is buried in a Jewish cemetery in Colma.
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