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From: wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch)
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Subject: have Gun, will Travel
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Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 11:04:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  3 11:04:41 1984
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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
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