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Re: figures for gun-fetiscists

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From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 02:45
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In article <1nnkbqINN21k@sol.tis.com> mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
>>I still find irony in a call for gun control from someone posting from
>>an army.mil site.
>[...]
>	Perhaps you were just making a funny based on "the army exists
>to kill people with guns, so why talk about gun control" - even that

No, the irony is in the fact that if the pro-control people have
their way, the army will be the only ones with the guns.

It's the same irony, as, say, someone from the NSA claiming that restricting
private use of cryptography is a good thing.
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Subject: Re: figures for gun-fetiscists
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