At 05:40 ìì 03/08/2001, you wrote:
>What a gentle list this is, I apologise for the OT subject, no excuse
>but we had a rough sort of week.
>Last year on another list (Brit motorcycles, mostly american input) I
>got a little too fired up when some of the good old boys started asking
>for support for their "buy a bullet day", this soon after the mass
>killings at one of their high schools.
>The idea was that if lots of people bought bullets on a particular day
>they could persuade congress that the trade was massive and influence
>decisions to be made.
>I think it was the question I put to them "should the parents of the
>murdered school kids buy the first bullets " that got them really riled.
>I got a friendly and understanding rebuke from the list leader and a
>rather sinister flame from maddog@ someplace or another.
>Been looking over my shoulder for black stretch limos since then.
>
>All the best - Bill (simmering down)
Oh! Don't get me started.... after the last week. 2 shootings, one arrest
before the fact... well I'm considering moving back to Europe for my
daughter to go to school.
Phoebus
