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On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 04:15:37 GMT, "pat"
<bahn@tgv-rockets.com> wrote:

>A lot of my friends, will not live in MD, because
>they feel that the Gun laws are far too constricting,
>yet they will gladly surrender all of their rights,
>in order to have a nice looking house....
>
>Could someone please explain this to me?

	Here are two guesses. One 'North of Virginia' is no
more real Virginia than DC is real USA -- and you notice he
said only that Northern Virginia places had all these
covenants. For that there's a historical reason that someone
in real Virginia can doubtless tell us more about: the short
version I got when I tried (yuk!) living in an Army base
disguised as a country club (calling itself Reston) is that
real -- i.e., legal -- towns have real power in Virginia,
and resist sharing it with any newcomers. So places like
Reston, and plenty more, aren't jurisdictions and have no
governments of their own. They substitute a tissue of
covenants, put in place by the developer before any subjects
ever move in -- and do indeed extend even to things like
what color you can paint your front door.

	Two, there is a well-developed community of gun
owners, especially on the Net. They get warned about such
things : notice responses to posts on va.general and
dc.general asking where to look for housing. There's always
at least one saying "If you own a gun, stay out of the
Unfree State."  If there were any such community of
house-buyers or renters, things would happen fast and hard
to some of these NoVa traps.

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RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger
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-- but you can tell who has a mind.