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- From: andy@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman)
- Subject: Re: the US elections...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.030825.2142@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Nov11.083707.29169@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <7793@monmouth.edu> <1992Nov19.000049.19227@radian.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:08:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.000049.19227@radian.uucp> markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr) writes:
- >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.
-
- Really? Some did just that. They died. He wasn't stopped by their
- actions at all.
-
- >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.
-
- You watch too many westerns. The Earps were thugs and instituted the
- rule to assist in their thuggery. The mundanes didn't much care as
- long as the earps preyed on drunk migrant cowboys; the rule didn't
- apply to the mundances.
-
- Read McGrath's "Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes".
-
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