Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!akgua!gatech!mngrve From: mngrve@gatech.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Social Responsibility: (Socialist Responsibility ?) Message-ID: <9393@gatech.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jul-84 18:56:08 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.9393 Posted: Tue Jul 31 18:56:08 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 3-Aug-84 02:05:10 EDT References: <1070@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: Georgia Tech School of ICS, Atlanta Lines: 34 [Does it really eat blank lines?] Dear Mr. Right-wing John Bircher, Just a little point of information for you, unlike guns, bazookas and n-pound crossbows, cheese knives have uses other than killing things which could not be easily killed with one's bare (unaided) hands. I personally prefer to use mine with gouda, and wouldn't dream of taking it into a McDonald's and blowing people away. Though I have no personal stand on the matter of outlawing guns, I do think that Freud would probably agree that people who like to shoot guns (and probably crossbows) are probably more aroused by the symbolic penetration of their prey than they are with the "sport." I admit that archery is a good sport for developing concentration, focus and strength but I don't go out of my way to molest living creatures for fun. Anyway, to get back to the subject, If you can give me one genuine USEFUL purpose that a gun can be put to in our "modern" society, I will gladly rush right out and buy one of those keen little UZI submachine guns modified for semiautomaticivity, file down or remove whatever has to be altered to make it spray however many rounds per second it is capable of, and perform my USEFUL (i.e. socially responsible) service. Marc Goodman mngrve@gatech America- where (almost) anyone can say (almost) anything they want (almost) anywhere and (almost) get away with it.