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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: "Don't give the people what they want, but what they NEED" (Was: More Gun Control)
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:20:30 GMT
- Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept.
- Lines: 62
- Message-ID: <1k94ku$qc6@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <C12EEr.64r@vcd.hp.com> <ATAYLOR.93Jan21134525@gauss.nmsu.edu> <1993Jan27.214617.5095@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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- In article <1993Jan27.214617.5095@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
- >In article <ATAYLOR.93Jan21134525@gauss.nmsu.edu>, ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy) writes:
- >|> In article <1993Jan21.132452.1981@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
- >|>
- >|> < But we don't *need* the guns.
- >|>
- >|> Jing, do you really, really, really, really want the Federal
- >|> Government to get any further into the business of deciding
- >|> what people do and do not *NEED*?
- >|>
- >|> One would assume that a 40-something-year-old-hippie
- >|> would have just a teensy bit more ability to, as my
- >|> dear old dad says, "Follow that critter down the road
- >|> and see what it eats" than to proclaim what Don and Russ
- >|> and I do not *NEED* to own in the way of inanimate objects.
- >
- >One can assume what one wants about 40-something-year-olds. That doesn't
- >happen to apply to me, but that's not the point. As I've asked before,
- >give me one, good, defensible reason why you need a gun. Why you *have*
- >to have one. If you can do that, then I'll be the first to admit that I
- >was wrong, or at the very least give some good, hard thought to my position.
-
- Be careful to use a bong more often, Jing; the dread weed is
- cauterizing your nasal passages. Fortunately I am young and keen of
- nose, and will gladly serve as a substitute tracker and investigator
- of feeding behavior.
-
- "No sirree bob. You don't need a gun. Sure the Constitution
- guarantees your right to own one, but that's out of date. It was
- written for an agrarian society two hundred years ago."
-
- "No sirree bob. You don't need drugs. Sure the Constitution
- guarantees your right to use them (*), but that's out of date. It was
- written for an agrarian society two hundred years ago."
-
- "No sirree bob. You don't need alcohol. Sure the Constitution
- guarantees your right to drink it (+), but that's out of date. It was
- written for an agrarian society two hundred years ago."
-
- "No sirree bob. You don't need newspapers. Sure the Constitution
- guarantees your right to read them, but that's out of date. It
- was written for an agrarian society two hundred years ago."
-
- "No sirree bob. You don't need to vote. Sure the Constitution
- guarantees your right to do so, but that's out of date. It was
- written for an agrarian society two hundred years ago."
-
- "No sirree bob. You ain't goin nowhere. Sure the Constitution
- guarantees your right to leave, but that's out of date. It was
- written for an agrarian society two hundred years ago."
-
- "Yes sirree bob. That wall over there. Stand straight and face the
- bricks. It'll only take a second. Consti-what? Huh? What the fuck
- you mean, boah?"
-
-
- Sure we don't *need* guns. We don't need a lot of things. Right?
- But we want them, and that's enough.
-
- c
- (*) - a quick glance at the Tenth Amendment should satisfy you.
- (+) - and, of course, the Twenty-First.
-