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Re: The gun debate and aus.politics

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From: Wayne W. McDougall
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:00
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freddo@magi.com (Fred Davis  VA3FD) writes:

> Ridiculous.  You cancelled one of my postings much earlier today
> Wayne (from fmdavis@nortel.com), and there was no need for it. 
> We ARE (supposedly) all of the same commonwealth, and as such,
> have similar culture and laws (English common law), which we are
> discussing here, so there is no need to cancel articles because 
> YOU deem them "irrelevant" to nz.general.

I missed the reference to common law. Perhaps you'd like to highlight it.
It is not me that judges it irrelevant - it is the many people who have
been complaining:

Here is the posting. You be the judge of its relevance to:

aus.politics
talk.politics.guns
can.talk.guns
nz.general
soc.culture.australian

fmdavis@nortel.com (Fred Davis VA3FD) writes:

> In article <5dqvsi$b6p@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>, mechler@cs.ubc.ca (Roland Mechler)
> wrote:
>
> :In article <5dqu6d$h80@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca>, devens@uoguelph.ca (David
> L Evens) writes:
> :|> Andrew (andrew@cobra357.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> :|> : Are you sure you're not a British Politician????
> :|>
> :|> Or a Canadian politician.  When Herr Rock had it pointed out to him that
> :|> knives are used to commit murder as frequently as guns, his response was
> :|> typical of the thug:  He started talking about robbing people of their
> :|> kitchen knives.
> :
> :Really? Do you have a quote from a reliable source, or are you just making
> :things up again?
>
> How can you really doubt that Rock would make that statement... this
> is the man who verbally mused that restrictions should be put on the
> internet to control the "web of hate"...
>
> He's a statist thug, Roland, accept it.  Someday, if he's
> left unchecked, he will reach into YOUR life and try to
> take away something that affects YOU.



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From: system@codeworks.gen.nz (Wayne W. McDougall)
Subject: Re: The gun debate and aus.politics
Date: 1997/02/15
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