From: liberty@gate.net (Jim Ray)
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 13:38:26 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: [Noise] was Re: Giving 6 year old kids [guns]
Message-ID: <199607210332.XAA60290@osceola.gate.net>
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After a conversation with a well-respected cypherpunk in private email,
I have been convinced to reveal publicly that at age 6 [first grade] I
had access to a .22 semiautomatic rifle and a 12GA shotgun, with good
safety instruction and accuracy in each (though the 12GA's kick took a
bit of getting-used-to). I was instructed to shoot any burglar, and I
feel lucky that we never had any. The thought of taking these (or any!)
guns to school _never_ entered my mind. I drove a car (on private land)
when I was only a bit older. There are certain 6 year olds who are quite
capable of taking proper responsibility with firearms, and there are also
certain 26 year olds who probably should reconsider gun ownership.
That's life. The reason I posted this non-cryptography stuff (sorry,
Perry!) here is that many non-US citizens may not understand the strong
"gun culture," (which is actually more a gun-safety culture, IMO) in
this country. Gun-grabber-hypocrites like syndicated columnist Carl
Rowan are provably the *least* safe gun owners, and the evidence also
proves beyond any doubt the good old bumper-sticker saying:
"Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun."
[Any replies to private e-mail, please.]
JMR

Regards, Jim Ray -- DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy

"It is long past time to end the laughable presumption that voters
 who can easily cope with the choices offered at Burger King are
 somehow 'confused' by more than two choices at the voting booth."
 -- me, in the Miami Herald, June 24, 1996, p. 10A.

 Defeat the Duopoly! Vote "NOTA," not Slick/Dull in November.
 Harry Browne for President. Jo Jorgensen for Vice-president.
 http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/
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