Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: have Gun, will Travel Message-ID: <815@ihuxp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 11:04:41 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxp.815 Posted: Fri Aug 3 11:04:41 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Aug-84 02:49:10 EDT References: uvacs.1390 <1449@ittvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 46 It has been put forth by many of our Gun Advocates, as their eye twitches and they roll little steel balls in their hands, that we need to arm ourselves against our own popularly-elected government. Others have stated that they need their magnums in case they see someone that is doing something that they don't like (e.g. eating someone else's strawberries). This is for the purpose of protecting themselves from the injustices that can be practiced against them by other citizens. What we end up with is a bunch of paranoid people heavily-armed that will have to fight for their life. For if someone feels that you are infringing on their rights, they will blow them away. (Where's my breadfruit.) I will speculate on the average day in the world these morons want: You wake up in the morning and have that first cup of coffee. The paperboy goes, throws the paper, and misses the porch. You blow the little bastard away for he got your paper dirty. You finish your breakfast. You turn off the automatic house defenses, and head off to your Chrysler M-42 passenger vehicle. As you pull out on the road, you have a close one as a truck fires a heat-seeking missile at you as you pull out in front of him. Luckily, the ECM worked and your rear-mounted 75mm recoiless takes out the cabin of the truck. You pull in to work through the new entrance (It still isn't safe to use the old entrance - the neutron bomb that took out the strikers still exceeds a safe level of radiation.) The day is relatively eventless, until just before quitting time, your supervisor calls you into its office (computers replaced management as a result of early AT&T AI projects in computer personalities.) It says that it has evaluated you in light of new company guidelines in reducing its cost base, and has decided that you are actually costing more to the company than if you were not working for the company, and solemnly announces that you have been terminated. "NO!" you cry but it is to no avail as the robotic defenses aim and terminate you. Walt Pesch AT&T Technologies ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch Sticks and Stones will Break my Bones, But Flames will never Hurt Me.