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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: misc.rural
- Subject: Re: Possible return of gray wolf to Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A.
- Message-ID: <4008@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 04:44:09 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.021933.27648@samba.oit.unc.edu> <25260042@hpcvra.cv.hp.com>
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- In article <25260042@hpcvra.cv.hp.com> ben@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth) writes:
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- >> ... This is the bear's set of rules. If you have a problem with that,
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- >What I have a problem with is that the bear gets to live by its rules
- >and I can't live by mine. It's fine with me if the bear wants to try
- >to eat me any way that it can. I just want to defend myself any way
- >that I like. Firearms are illegal within national parks.
-
- You get to live by your own rules in your own home, why can't the
- bears live by their rules in *their* home?
-
- >I am not arguing for pre-emptive eradication of bears. It is the
- >one-sided application of "the laws of nature" that rankles.
-
- It would be one-sided if the bear was allowed to carry firearms and
- you weren't. But, no, society discriminates against bears. Gun
- store owners will not only *not* sell guns to bears, the bears
- get shot for trying to buy one.
-
- Is that justice? Nope.
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