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- From: Aryk Nusbacher <nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca>
- Subject: Re: No Army Needed( was: Swiss military preparedness?)
- Message-ID: <Bzs8v0.LGz@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: University of Toronto - Office of the Provost
- References: <BzH50C.Aq2@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <BzM9op.M1x@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:25:47 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From Aryk Nusbacher <nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca>
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- First, it is useless to expect any military value from personal
- firearms if they are selected without regard to standardisation.
- Without standard ammunition and parts, there is no military point to
- having everybody armed and ready to turn out.
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- Second, the above point implies that standard issue firearms would be
- kept at home, after the Swiss model. Now, I would trust the Switzers
- with their five-hundred-year tradition of maintaining combat weapons
- at home, to give their firearms the attention they'd need. However, I
- would not trust some cussed, individualistic Anglo-Saxons of the sort
- found in abundance in North America, to keep their firearms clean,
- bright and slightly oiled. Some would, but most would turn their gear
- up for inspection with rust, wear, and filth. And that would pretty
- much moot the whole idea of having them.
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- Western civilisation developed the armoury for a reason.
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- Aryk Nusbacher
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