sender: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>:

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Worst of all are the complete loonies (some apparently on this list) who assert that guns are an essential protection against a tyrannical US Federal Government. Those who believe this have apparently never heard of the US Civil War, because the South tried exactly this over 130 years ago. (They failed, BTW.) It succeeded only in destroying most of an entire generation of Americans, along with much of the country. And that was before some rather significant advances in US military weaponry, vis a vis privately owned weapons. ... Phil

This guy scares me more than any number of "gun nuts"...

Perhaps I'm foolish for asking, but what, precisely, has any of this to do with _cryptography_? Could you all go out back and shoot it out, perhaps? -- Lefty (lefty@apple.com) C:.M:.C:., D:.O:.D:.