At 11:42 PM 9/2/97 -0400, anti-matter aliens from another dimension tortured Brian until he wrote:
On 9/2/97 9:28 PM, Jonathan Wienke (JonWienk@ix.netcom.com) passed this wisdom: [Editor's note: this must be how wisdom is like flatus.]
What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" is too hard to understand? (From 2nd Amendment, U.S. Constitution)
When everyone is armed, criminals fear everyone, not just the police.
Just curious, where did you ever get the idea that criminals fear the police? The way our system works these days, the police are hardly more than an annoyance and inconvenience (unless of course an NYC cop asks if you want to go to the bathroom!) rather than to be feared.
You are right, of course, to a point. Criminal don't fear cops like vampires fear wooden stakes, or like certain politicians / three-letter-agencies fear and loathe private gun ownership, or like most women fear most spiders and snakes. However, most criminals do make some effort to avoid committing crimes in the presence of law enforcement officers, and try to avoid capture and incarceration by same. (Those who don't, appear on "America's Dumbest Criminals" or White House press briefings, I forget which...) On the other hand, a homeowner with a 12-gauge riot shotgun or a Desert Eagle .44 Magnum pistol can instill fear into almost any criminal, even the stupid ones. (The only thing I don't like about the Eagle is that a 75+ ounce pistol is rather difficult to conceal. I have a shoulder holster for mine, and I have to carry four magazines on the off side so I don't walk like Quasimodo. :) Even a Jennings .22 can ruin a mugger's day, assuming that it doesn't jam, and you can hit anything with it. Jonathan Wienke What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" is too hard to understand? (From 2nd Amendment, U.S. Constitution) When everyone is armed, criminals fear everyone, not just the police. PGP 2.6.2 RSA Key Fingerprint: 7484 2FB7 7588 ACD1 3A8F 778A 7407 2928 DSS/D-H Key Fingerprint: 3312 6597 8258 9A9E D9FA 4878 C245 D245 EAA7 0DCC Public keys available at pgpkeys.mit.edu. PGP encrypted e-mail preferred. US/Canadian Windows 95/NT or Mac users: Get Eudora Light + PGP 5.0 for free at http://www.eudora.com/eudoralight/ Get PGP 5.0 for free at http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pgp-form.html Other PGP 5.0 sources: http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/ http://www.heise.de/ct/pgpCA/download.shtml ftp://ftp.pca.dfn.de/pub/pgp/V5.0/ ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/pc/win95/pgp ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/mac/pgp http://www.shopmiami.com/utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/replay/pub/pgp/pgp50/win/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`