From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 10:17:40 +0800
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Lethality, guns, knives, & reality
Message-ID: <199705210126.UAA11333@einstein.ssz.com>
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Hi,

Forwarded message:

> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 13:05:12 -0800
> From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
> Subject: Re: SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

> Also, the "boiling a frog slowly" metaphor comes to mind...most people have
> little idea how the vise has tightened. And in the case of "gun rights,"
> most Americans are apparently of the opinion that their lives will be safer
> if all guns are banned.
> 
> (Which may be true, if _all_ guns were banned.

The last time I looked at the FBI stats on homicide deaths by beatings with
clubs, hands, and feet were much larger than homicides by gun or knife.


trivial dribble:

Nifty thing I found out today is that the cleaner that I use on my
whiteboard at work burns quite rapidly.

                                                    Jim Choate
                                                    CyberTects
                                                    ravage@ssz.com