From: "Brian B. Riley" <brianbr@together.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 12:01:28 +0800
To: "Cynthia Brown" <alexlh@yourchoice.nl>
Subject: Re: "Show me an example of terrorists using the Internet or crypto"
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On 10/1/97 4:20 PM, Cynthia Brown (cynthb@sonetis.com)  passed this
wisdom:

>I agree wholeheartedly. Uncontrolled guns do not solve problems, 
>they create them. If most households have at least one firearm, it 
>makes it that much easier for a criminal to obtain one by stealing 
>yours while you are at work.
>
>Canada may be regulated to death according to most libertarians, 
>but I for one like it that way. I can walk alone and unarmed at 
>night in Ottawa, Toronto, etc. without fearing for my life. Can a 
>female resident of Washington or New York say the same? Our schools 
>do not have metal detectorsat the entrances because they are not 
>needed.  

 I live in the state of Vermont, where we have more guns per household
than most of the states in the US. We are one of the only (if not
*the* only) states in the Union that permits concealed carry without
requiring a permit (with the not surprising exceptions of USG
buildings and schools). Our record high murder year was a few years
ago, twenty three murders (that high because we had a woman go crazy
at the Eveready plant in Bennington and killed five people in one
sitting) in more recent years the figure generally stays under ten per
year ...three years ago the figure was five and only one of them was
with a gun ... a shotgun, not a handgun. We go where we please with
little fear as well; It has to do with a frame of mind, a set of
values, not with a lack of availability or opportunity.

  There is something to be said for living in a place where a man can
come right down off the hills during deer season and walk into a
liquor store with a shotgun to buy a bottle of hooch without drawing a
SWAT team! Try that in NYC or Toronto!

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