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Subject: Re: McDonald's (San Diego) Massacre - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 16:30:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  3 16:30:16 1984
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>Baseball bats are for hitting baseballs.
>Chainsaws are for turning forests into lumber.
>Electricity is for light, heat, communications, industry, ....
>Guns are for poking holes in mammals.
>Which one doesn't belong?
>				Jeff Woolsey

No, "Jeff Woolsey" is not the answer; "jeff Woolsey" is the signature.  The
answer to his question is obvious: of the four, only one is singular.  That
same one has a list of nouns rather than gerund-phrases.  The answer *must*
be 'electricity' is the one that doesn't belong.

It's not clear what Woolsey's anti-electricity propaganda is doing in this pile
of gun-owner-control propaganda.  The only relationship that I can see, is that
the anti-electricity people and the gun-owner-control people are both
anti-humanity, not caring that the effects of their power-grabs are known to be
much more lethal than the excuse that they use.

I probably need to explain that last statement, because so many people have
been misled into believing that both gun-owner-control and anti-electricity
propagandists have some sort of truth on their side.  Item the first: nuclear
safety.  Q:  How many people died as a result of TMI, and why?  A:  About 125
to 150 people per year have died from political action responding to the TMI
incident.  If the actions had not been taken by government, they would be
recognized as being murder victims.  When the State of Pennsylvania (or is it a
Commonwealth?) shut down the other plant, arbitrarily, they caused the power to
be generated by lethal means--coal, gas, hydro, and solar--rather than the safe
nuclear generator.  The effluent from the coal and gas that had to be used
spewed into the atmosphere killed those people.  

The gun-owner-control people are screaming for a similar reduction in public
safety.  The discussion that is going on here is adequate to demonstrate much
of the damage that the gun-owner-control fanatics wish to bring about, so I
won't attempt to add anything--except, of course, an apology for injecting
reason and reality into net.flame :-).


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--Bill Price    uucp:   {decvax!ucbvax  philabs}!sdcsvax!bmcg!bprice
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