From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 03:44:51 +0800
To: Ernest Hua <hua@xenon.chromatic.com>
Subject: Re: Giving 6 year old kids Uzi's (Was: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced  Ninja Raids)
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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Ernest Hua wrote:
> 
> Would you just hand out guns to all teenagers?


     I was 17 when Uncle Shithead handed me my first M-16, and I wasn't 
the youngest person in my company.

> No where in this list of high priority items is respect for human life,

     I'm in my late 20's, and respect for human life is lower than ever.

> Incidentally, if you are interested, I DO have a child (almost 2 yrs),
> and I certainly would not even contemplate letting him have a gun (no
> matter how well he can use it) until he can legal get one himself.  I
> will certainly invoke serious wrath (on him and anyone else involved)
> if I ever found him with a gun.


     Yes, those guns are evil things. Evil I tell you, constantly shooting
people for no reason, going off half-cocked and whooping it up all by 
their polished oiled ol selves.

     Isn't it funny how otherwise rational people can ascribe intentions
and moral alignement (ie. good/evil) to an inert chunk of steel?

> 
> By the way, would you let a 6 year old drive?  or fly?  (Assuming that
> they are physical capable and trained to do such.)

     I was driving tractors(small ones) and motorcycles long before I 
turned 16. My father started teaching me to drive a car (thru asking 
questions &etc.) when I was about 12, and put me behind the wheel of 
a van when I was 15 (in a controled situation away from traffic). 

     He also taught me the basics of gun saftey, and made sure that
I took those classes that were available to me in the areas of gun 
saftey and marksmanship. 

   Then again for all his faults my father is a relatively rational 
human being about most things. 


Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com