Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Oct 1998 06:31:50 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: Arm the gnus |
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Hopefully I won't get involved in this, but I'd just like to request that this thread be dropped or moved off to another more appropriate list. If asked I will even set up this list ('linux-guns?') so that people will have a forum to discuss these issues instead of bloating linux-kernel with seemingly extremely off-topic discussion.
Thanks, Stephen
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Nathan Hand wrote:
> ~~ > On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, David Luyer wrote: > > > Please, kill this thread. I hadn't realised quite how insane Americans > > are until this guns thread came up. I didn't want to respond to it but > > the idiocy has dragged me into it - the belief of Americans that their > > constitution is the law of the world (a country with laws which bans export > > of encryption and yet do nothing to stop the masses from owning firearms). > > > > 1: This doesn't belong here. Take it to wherever guns-lobby loonies collect > > and chat about how they should be allowed to bear arms (or in countries > > with primitive laws, defend their right to bear arms). > > > > 2: There is no "natural right to bear arms". Any right to weapons is a thing > > of the past, and the countries where it is legal for anyone to own a gun > > are stuck in the distant past. In Australia, Pauline Hanson's One Nation > > Party was the latest guns-lobby-sponsored political party. Their pro-guns > > and pro-racism policies put them right where they deserved to be - out of > > parliament. > > One Nation also mustered 10% of the Australian vote, but thanks to > some clever electorate border manipulation by the government, they > only managed one senate seat. I just thought I should make it very > clear that Australian's are just as rasict and pro-gun as the next > country's inhabitants. > > > The Australian society has grown up and realised that a society without guns > > is a far safer society. It takes a cursory glance at the statistics of violent > > crimes and deaths to realise that gun ownership is not a sensible thing for > > the masses. If you need to own a gun to feel safe, move! > > I think it is unfair of you to request the topic be moved off this > list, while at the same time getting *your* opinion in as the last > word. > > However, if this highly off topic thread has shown anything, it is > that putting emotionally charged issues such as gun ownership onto > mailing lists with international representation is a *damn* stupid > thing to do. > > Please kill this thread: some people are clearly being offended by > it, to the point of sheer disgust, and there's simply no reason to > create yet another point of division on linux-kernel (there's more > than enough heated argument over devfs, oom, fbcon and vger). > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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