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Re: figures for gun-fetiscists

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From: Marcus J Ranum
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 01:33
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donb@netcom.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>
>And Handgun Control Inc propaganda...do you attack that as well?

	I like to think so. They're just as bad.

>> You think they give a sh** about your freedom?
>Some do.  I don't think that HCI and other gun control groups give a shit
>about my freedom

	Nope. I suspect that they're even *less* deluded about who they
are trying to help. Basically, they seem bent on doing us all a big
favor in spite of ourselves.

>>You think they give a sh** about the "right to keep and bear arms?" They
>>care a WHOLE LOT about the "right to buy arms"  -  cuz they're part of
>>the multibillion dollar industry.
>
>Oh no, not..a selfish industry!  Out to make a profit!  The bastards...

	I have no problem with making a profit. I do get irritated with
folks who fund groups that wrap themselves in the flag and the constitution
to drum up support for their profit. I'd be sick and disgusted if the
tobacco industry tried to drum up support for pro-smoking campaigns by
depicting smoking as a freedom-loving-fight-against-oppression kind of
thing to do. "God, guts, and nicotine" and all that...

	Basically people are stupid. I know that, you know that, we all
know that - but I hate having it rubbed in my face by braindamaged
propaganda from either HCI or NRA. I run into more NRA propaganda
than I do HCI stuff because I read more gun journals than I do
anti-gun journals.

mjr.
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