full-disclosure - Show me the Virrii!

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From: exibar at thelair.com (Exibar)
Subject: Show me the Virrii!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls@...allas.edu>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 12:30 PM
Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Show me the Virrii!

> >   Saying Windows is to blame for the mess that we're in is
> > like saying the gun is what causes a murder and not the
> > person that pulled the trigger.
> >
> Well, there's a boatload of people in the world that apparently believe
> guns cause murders, isn't there?  At least judging by the number of
> countries that have outlawed the ownership of them....

yes there are quite a few small minded people who believe that.  But I've
never in my life seen or even heard of a gun that was just sitting on a desk
getting up and going off and shooting people on it's own.

  What happens when a country outlaws guns?  yup, only the outlaws will have
guns.  It's against the law to own a firearm in the UK, yet shootings
happen.  Same, to one degree or another, in Japan, Australia, certain cities
and states in the US ban certain types of weapons as well to some degree.

  If someone is that intent on killing someone else, and they cannot get a
gun, they'll use a knife, baseball bat, rock, bare hands, whatever TOOL they
can get.  The tool isn't to blame, it's the sick bastard that uses it to
cause harm.

  I don't want to get into a political debate about guns here though.
E-mail me off list if you want to continue a civil discussion about gun
ownership :-)

  Exibar