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From: earlw@apple.com (Earl Wallace)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: "Proper gun control?" What is proper gun control?
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Date: 15 Apr 93 22:55:18 GMT
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In article <C5JAtz.5G4@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> rats@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Morris the Cat) writes:
>...
>Let's prohibit arms carrying by police when off-duty. Or, if they make
>the assertion that "Well, I need to maintain my gun" let's make it
>regulation that they can carry an UNLOADED firearm home, that it's
>only fair that they be just as helpless as poor schmuck coming home
>from his computer operator job...
>
>NRA Director/ex-San Jose cop Leroy Pyle states in the latest SWAT
>magazine that anti-cops better watch out for this schism between
>RKBA folks and the police. He asks the rhetorical question of 'What
>if what's left of the gun lobby starts demanding the disarmament
>of the police?"
>
>Well, I guess anti-gun cops who think only they should be armed,
>along with the wealthy and politically connected, should be made
>to realize that screwing can cut in ways they have yet to imagine.
>...

We all know this will never happen.  Because the Police are under the wings
of Government, they will always be considered more important than Citizens.

Government pens, pencils and paper are considered more important than
Citizens.

I think we have a problem with our Government.
