RE: wow - is a "shadow" politician still a politician?

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

By the Wild West I meant (admittedly in a shorthand version) a social
context where there are virtually no legal restrictions on most "real"
weapons. I was making no moral judgements about frontier weapon culture or
assumptions about the use or misuse of weapons of any sort: I was pointing
out that the chances of any middle-ground politician in 21st century England
having any thought of relaxing gun controls more than a fraction is
hilarious, because the two contexts have very little in common. I don't
think it's likely that a conservative party would even relax them to
pre-Blair levels. That thought wasn't meant as a personal attack on you: if
I'd meant that I'd have been much more scathing.

That said, I'm going to ignore this debate and return to -my- weapon of
choice: it has six strings and the word Stratocaster on the headstock.
Admittedly, it would make one heck of a cudgel.

-- 
David Harley
http://www.smallblue-greenworld.co.uk  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Loe [mailto:knobdy () gmail com] 
> Sent: 29 August 2007 21:26
> To: david.a.harley () gmail com
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] wow - is a "shadow" politician still a 
> politician?
>
> On 8/29/07, David Harley <david.a.harley () gmail com> wrote:
> > > Oh, wait, even in the OLD wild west these things were rare so now 
> > > that we're more "civilized" I shouldn't expect to see such 
> > > spectacles...too bad, always enjoy them in the movies.
> > > That's not where you got your ideas of the "Wild West" is 
> it, movies?
> > No, it isn't. And your attacking me personally by presuming 
> so doesn't 
> > make your position any less laughable.
> >
> > Clearly, this is a religious argument, not a discussion. 
> I'm out of here.
> >
>
> Getting out is generally easier than explaining your position 
> - but I'm not accusing you of that. If you sincerely believe 
> I was attacking you personally, I apologize, I wasn't. 
> Further, my comments could not possibly be taken as anything 
> more offensive than your own characterization of my argument 
> (the post I was responding to).
>
> So, you can cut and run or you can explain what the wild west 
> is... to someone living there. And by doing so propel your 
> original comments to a level higher than a personal attack.
>
> --
> Thank You,
> Brian Loe
> ClintonEO
> Clinton Enterprises
> www.clinton.com
> 1-800-CLINTON

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