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Re: Gun debate (was Re: New Web Page
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:16:22 GMT
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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 00:17:12 GMT, jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper Janssen)
wrote:

On Mon, 31 May 1999 22:11:06 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
wrote:

Besides,
I'd rather see the guilty working their butts off to give their victims
restitution instead of fried. (I know, in prisons as they are today, it
costs money to incarcerate. Doesn't have to be that way...)

They don't have to make license plates. They could be making low-tech
electronics, as currently typically hand-made in the East.

Or they could be put to work staffing phones for airline reservations.
Handling credit card transactions for unsuspecting travelers.

Oh, wait.  Been done.  Stupid idea.  :-/

-- Terry K --



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