Hi to all of you. I know most of you personnally, except for the posts to mailing lists and public organisms. ------------------ beginning of letter --------------- Yesterday night, around 2am, I was unable to sleep and surfing the TV channels up until I fell on a movie on the ShowCase channel. This channel is devoted to repertoire cinema and less mainstream movies. As I flick to this channel, I see something I can't take my eyes off for it's overwhelming revolting topic: a bunch of corpses are on a dolly, each of one being tied by the feet to a crane cable and quickly, efficiently taken away to a big heap of corpses. Then, a lineup of peoples, waiting in line to pass before some officer. They are promplty urged to take off their clothes, aligned to face a wall and shot in the back of the head. And this continues like an dis-assembly chain. I did not bear more than a few minutes of the thing. During thoses few minutes, maybe five or six rows of five peoples were slaughtered. Peoples of all walk of life, of all ages, young and olds, male and females, beautiful and ugly, strugling or resigned were executed by an indifferent row of unintelligent and/or psychotic thugs that simply "executed orders". There was the firing squad captain that did not shoot but that gave the firing orders, so that the thugs could sleep without remorse. There was their superior supervising the whole slaughterhouse operation and finally, there was the political supervisor, dressed in the "de rigueur" grey with grey hat. This operation was clearly in the context of some political purge. I did not comprehend the full details of the context, but it appeared that it was happening during the russian revolution, or more possibly in East Germany after WW-II. The executed peoples were helpless, at the mercy of thoses thugs because they had no way to respond to death threat by death threat. Most of them had accepted their fate and walked to their death attempting to defend themselves with calm reason, useless in this context since the firing squad was composed of idiots and psychotics. One girls pleaded for her life and her great beauty made the animals of the firing squad hesitate, but was promptly shot in the head from a distance by the political supervisor. And it dawned on me that it could never had happened in a society where gun ownership was unregulated, and it also dawned on me that it is the essence of the natural outcome of all gun regulation/registration schemes. That to provide that kind of power to the ruling political class is the ultimate goal of gun registration and regulation, notwithstanding that they chose to exert it or not. Very soon (in principle on october 1st 1998), under the new bill C-68 , you will be declared a criminal in the full sense of the law, just as if you had killed somebody, if you don't register your guns (or don't plan to do so before the limit date comes up in a few years). Putting aside for a moment the tremendous costs associated with that C-68 nonsense (around 2 billions $ wasted money) we must realize that private law-abiding firearm owners account for 0.08% of all homicides commited with a firearms. So, I ask because I consider it of extreme importance, what's the ULTIMATE purpose of declaring criminal seven millions of individuals who wants nothing more than lead peacefull lifes? ----------- end of letter -------------- Jean-Francois Avon, Montreal, Canada Hitler, Stalin, Pinochet, PolPot and every other notorious psychotic butchers insisted on a tight control of privately owned firearms. I wonder why? "nobody runs faster than a bullet" - supposedly from Idi Amin Dada Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada DePompadour, Société d'Importation Ltée Limoges fine porcelain and french crystal JFA Technologies, R&D physicists & engineers Instrumentation & control, LabView programming PGP keys: http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html PGP ID:C58ADD0D:529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 PGP ID:5B51964D:152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C