Re: Protest Vote '92 (Was: Don't waste your vote on Bush or Clinton)

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From: Bill Campbell
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:02

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In <2731@tau-ceti.isc-br.com> jimc@tau-ceti.isc-br.com (Jim Cathey) writes:

:In article <1992Oct09.152435.7133@microsoft.com> davidst@microsoft.com (David Steckler) writes:
:>I don't know the reason, but Switzerland supposedly requires all households
:>to keep fully (not semi, but fully) automatic weapons. It might be to thwart
:>external instead of internal agression. They do have a ridiculously low
:>crime rate over there (I don't know if there's a correlation between everyone
:>owning guns (machine-guns, at that) and a low crime rate, but they certainly
:>don't show any correlation between firearm access and a high crime rate).

I think you'll find similar statistics on burglaries in rural
areas like many parts of West Virginia where most houses have
guns (and not much to steal :-).

:Remember:  An armed society is a _polite_ society!

Sounds like Robert Heinlein to me :-).

Bill
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From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
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Subject: Re: Protest Vote '92 (Was: Don't waste your vote on Bush or Clinton)
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Date: 14 Oct 92 00:02:31 GMT
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