List Mum said we were supposed to quit talking about this. He even
threatened to shoot us..... /jmac
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Chuck Norcutt
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 8:25 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: What's up with the OM list? It's gone strange and
insular.
I'm not a gun owner Christos, but I can't imagine a more arrogant
statement than what you've said below about arrogance.
Chuck Norcutt
Christos Stavrou wrote:
> There is no doubt that the humanity imagines a civilised and
> democratic society as one where citizens do not carry guns..
> After all, this is one of our greatest achievements (in western
> societies), to have historically managed to pacify our public space,
> just during the last couple of centuries, and to have create state
> institutions which monopolise violence when necessary.
>
> There is also no doubt that the whole issue is dangerous and
> shocking... By the way, any achievement of humanity can easily be
> reversed and we need to safeguard the traces of our progress.
>
> I think all these nonsense about guns better get back to where it came
> from... I understand that all this is a very serious social problem of
> one particular country, but it's not welcomed from the rest of us,
> especially when appears as flippant and arrogant as it gets so far. I
> hope that I express the views of the majority here.
>
> Christos Stavrou
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