On 8/29/07, David Harley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the Wild West I meant (admittedly in a shorthand version) a social > context where there are virtually no legal restrictions on most "real" > weapons. I was making no moral judgements about frontier weapon culture or > assumptions about the use or misuse of weapons of any sort: I was pointing > out that the chances of any middle-ground politician in 21st century England > having any thought of relaxing gun controls more than a fraction is > hilarious, because the two contexts have very little in common. I don't > think it's likely that a conservative party would even relax them to > pre-Blair levels. That thought wasn't meant as a personal attack on you: if > I'd meant that I'd have been much more scathing.
I'm sure. To your point, I'll repeat a post you might not have seen. Firearms are the most regulated industry in this country. As for your country, I hope you're wrong. Eventually I think all free people get tired of being hopeless, defenseless lemmings. And I have a hard time believing that the country which birthed this one could ever not be free. > > That said, I'm going to ignore this debate and return to -my- weapon of > choice: it has six strings and the word Stratocaster on the headstock. > Admittedly, it would make one heck of a cudgel. > I could probably find at least one case of murder by guitar - not sure about the Stratocastor part... _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
