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Question:
If Kosovo was populated by say well-armed ornery Texans would Yugoslavia
ever have dared invade it? I doubt it. The only reason Milosevic has
treaded so carefully with Montenegro is that the Montenegrins are well-armed
and have a long reputation as tenacious fighters. In W.W.II, Tito liked to
promote Montenegrins to generals because they were so tough and made good
soldiers.
And what government would use weapons of mass destruction on its own
territory (other than Sadam Hussein)? Wouldn't a scorched earth policy on
your own earth defeat the purpose of subjugating your citizens?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ullrich Fischer [mailto:uf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: June 4, 1999 7:14 PM
> To: Dtrader; Omega List
> Subject: Re: A quotation related to the Florida thread
>
>
> Hopefully this will the last word polluting this otherwise pristine forum
> for trading questions and threats of violence against the fine
> but fallible
> folks at Omega Research. The following is an excerpt from an e-mail I
> received by mailing list from Michael Moore, producer of the excellent
> public affairs/satire TV show on Bravo (Sunday evenings): The Awful
> Truth. This is the best, most concise argument I've seen for
> gun controls
> anywhere. Think about it. The life you save may be your own or
> your kid's.
>
> <snip>
>
> After the founding fathers
> wrote the Constitution, they started to get
> freaked out that the Brits might return, so they
> wrote an amendment saying we all had a right
> to have a musket in our cabins. That turned
> out not to be not such a bad idea 'cause the
> Brits did return in 1812 (thanks guys), but ever
> since then, the Second Amendment has been
> more like the Second Commandment. It made
> a lot of sense then; it makes no sense now.
> The potential foreign invaders or a possible
> rogue American government we are
> supposed to be ready to fight with our pistols
> and shotguns now all have atomic bombs
> and sonic jet fighters -- and there ain't nothin'
> I can keep in my garage that's going to fend
> off that kind of firepower.
> Or let's look at it another way. I would assume
> that even most gun nuts in America would not
> subscribe to the belief that every American
> has a right to own weapons-grade plutonium.
> But why shouldn't we? Isn't that the modern
> version of the 1776 musket? The reason we
> are all willing to give up our God-given right to
> weapons-grade plutonium is that we feel it's
> better to be denied that right than to risk what
> might happen when one or two kooks decide
> to blow up Des Moines with their
> Constitutionally-protected plutonium.
> The same type of survival instinct leads us
> also to accept the abandonment of our
> Fourth Amendment rights when we walk
> through the metal detector at the airport.
> Even the most liberally-minded say go
> ahead and x-ray my bags and wave that
> magic wand over my crotch CAUSE I DON'T
> WANT TO BE BLOWN TO KINGDOM COME!
> To those who say it isn't the guns causing all
> this tragedy, but, rather, that it's Hollywood,
> rock and roll, the internet and the disinterested
> and absentee suburban parents who fail to
> notice the 30 pipe bombs Junior is building in
> the bedroom, let me point out that the Brits
> watch the same exact violent movies, the
> same violent TV shows, play the same violent
> video games, listen to the same dark Goth
> music, have access same sick internet
> addresses and have the same number of lousy
> parents raising the same number of psychotic
> kids in the same kind of morally-corrupt society.
> Last year, in a nation of over 50 million
> people, with strict guns laws, there was a
> total of 30 handgun murders in Great Britain.
> Thirty.
> I hate to say it folks, but it's the guns.
> Funny how our former masters get to have the
> last laugh after they sent us down this insane
> road.
>
>
>
>
> At 04:13 PM 6/4/99 -0400, Dtrader wrote:
>
>
> >here here.
> >
> >as well as the polluting of this list with none trading related threads.
> >
> >_________________
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Bert Antonik <mbcsne@xxxxxxx>
> >To: Alan Myers <a.myers@xxxxxxxx>
> >Cc: grisham@xxxxxxxxxxx <grisham@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Omega List
> ><omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 3:57 PM
> >Subject: Re: A quotation related to the Florida thread
> >
> >
> >:
> >:Sorry, but I think it's time to stop letting the infringement of
> >:rights and morals go unchallenged!
> >:
> >:
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