From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Mar 19 2004 - 13:19:56 GMT
Leland wrote:
> >>Your much-vaunted
> >>constitution also guarantees the "Right to Bear Arms" which, arguably, is
> >>a major player in the number of gun deaths in the US.
> >>
> >>
> >
Platt responded:
> >One of Hitler's first moves when he took power was to make possession
>> of
> >arms by citizens illegal. Dictators never want to see their citizens
> >exercising self-defense.
> >
> Whoa there. I wasn't starting a gun/anti-gun debate. Also, you've just
> invoked Godwin's Law (but I won't hold that against you ;^{)> )
>
> Godwin's Law: /prov./ [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows
> longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler
> approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once
> this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis
> has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law
> thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread
> length in those groups.
> - The Jargon File (http://www.ccil.org/jargon/)
Guess I should have used Stalin who was a worse dictator than Hitler in
terms of number of people slaughtered in the name of "the public good."
Would you say Godwin is a Pirsig fan? :-)
Platt
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