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Re: 2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 8 Dec 1999 13:32:55 GMT
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Richard Franks wrote:
> > > > "Everyone should own guns, lots of them, and carry them everywhere, even to
> > > > school. We'd all be so much more polite that way."
> > >
> > > True. Very True.
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> > Except on those rare occasions things get out of hand?
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> Agreed! If such an absurd notion(1) were to be true, then surely the
> "Wild West" would be known as the "Exceptionally polite West where no-one would
> ever dream of raising their voices or frowning at another."
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> Richard
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> (1) This is of course my opinion, granted upon me seemingly by virtue of the
> fact that I wasn't born in the States.
My understanding of those times is that most people were polite and
steered clear of annoying people. I also understand that gunfights were
insanely uncommon. Not at all like motion picture portrayal.
(I wasn't born in the states either - unless you consider western Europe
a state)
Chris
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