From: "Bill Olson (EDP)" <a-billol@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:50:11 +0800
To: "'cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: RE: [Noise] was Re: Giving 6 year old kids Uzi's
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On Mon, 22 July 1996, Brad Dolan wrote:
>
>On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Ernest Hua wrote:
>
>> 
>> > > > Thanks, but if it is all the same to you, I'd rather live
>> > > > in a country where everybody  << including six year olds >>
>> > > > carry, and can use Uzi's, etc, as a matter of course.
>> > > 
>> > > Would you just hand out guns to all teenagers?
>> > 
>> > My twelve-year-old daughter asked for and received a .22 for her
>>birthday.
>> > Her four and six year old siblings enjoy shooting it, under close 
>> > supervision.
>> 
>> The question was not whether you might let your little girl operate
>> a gun.  The question was whether you might let her carry it as part
>> of her standard equipment.  Would you let her go to school with it
>> loaded or with ammo within easy reach?  I mean, what's the point of
>> carrying a gun without bullets?
>
>My daughter often carries her gun to school, complete with large 
>quantities of high-velocity long-rifle cartridges.
>
>She's homeschooled and marksmanship is one of her extracurricular activities.
>
>bd
>
>p.s.  In two years of homeschooling, she has advanced 6 grade levels on 
>the state-mandated achievement tests.  
>

I don't care if it takes my son 6 years to get through 2 grade levels,
anyone who allows there kid to pack a gun (or a rifle?) should get their
head examined (or join the Freemen--I hear they are short a few
members).