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

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Daniel H. Renner wrote:

> Drsolly wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Daniel H. Renner wrote:
> >
> > > Wow! It appears I've missed one of those prized FunSec debates in my 
> > > sleep.
> > >
> > > For all those that push the "need" to ban guns, because they are so-o 
> > > dangerous I give you this challenge:
> > > Put an (eek) LOADED gun on the table - and wait for it to do some 
> > > damage.  You know, kill someone, rob a poor citizen, etc....
> >  
> > OK, I've done that. No-one got killed. Then I banned guns in the UK, and 
> > our murder rate was suddenly one twentyth of the USA.
> >
> > And I have a theory about how this works. My theory goes like this - when 
> > you have a lot less guns in the population, you get a lot less people 
> > being killed by guns.
> >
> > Let me know what you think of that theory.
> >
> > Anyway - I'm all in favour of having lots of guns in America. That's 
> > because I never go there.
> >
> > > Let me know how long it takes will ya?
> > >
> > > (Banning guns is like typical Western medicine - heal the effect, not 
> > > the cause.)
> >  
> > Healing the effect sounds good to me. When I fell into a bed of nettles 
> > and ow ow ow, the cream I put on my arm worked so much better than cutting 
> > down all the nettles.
>
> Ah!  Where you went wrong was in not closing the bottle that got you to 
> fall in the bush...
 
It wasn't a bottle, it was a log I stood on, that wasn't as steady as it 
had been a month before. And it wasn't a bush, it was a bed of nettles.

Anyhow - point is, I was very pleased about the soothing effect of the 
cream on my symptoms, and a scythe to cut down the nettles wouldn't have 
helped at all.

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