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  1. Newsgroups: alt.peeves
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  3. From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
  4. Subject: "Don't give the people what they want, but what they NEED" (Was: More Gun Control)
  5. In-Reply-To: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com's message of Thu, 21 Jan 93 13:24:52 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <ATAYLOR.93Jan21134525@gauss.nmsu.edu>
  7. Sender: usenet@nmsu.edu
  8. Organization: NMSU Computer Science
  9. References: <fB8js*xZ0@prolix.apana.org.au> <C12EEr.64r@vcd.hp.com>
  10.     <1jhbv0INNaa6@umbc4.umbc.edu> <1993Jan19.230523.28900@igor.tamri.com>
  11.     <1993Jan21.132452.1981@dg-rtp.dg.com>
  12. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:45:25 GMT
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  15. In article <1993Jan21.132452.1981@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
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  17. < But we don't *need* the guns. 
  18.  
  19.     Jing, do you really, really, really, really want the Federal
  20.     Government to get any further into the business of deciding
  21.     what people do and do not *NEED*?
  22.  
  23.     One would assume that a 40-something-year-old-hippie
  24.     would have just a teensy bit more ability to, as my
  25.     dear old dad says, "Follow that critter down the road
  26.     and see what it eats" than to proclaim what Don and Russ
  27.     and I do not *NEED* to own in the way of inanimate objects.
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  30. ObPeeve: shortsighted people with utterly no knowledge of history.
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