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. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
