OFF - and multiply!

[M Holmes]

Ted O. Jackson writes:

> Right!  I believe that in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing,
> the net was flooded with requests for instructions on how to
> duplicate this brave, freedom-fighting act.  Right here in river city
> last month a bunch of junior-high kids were caught plotting to bomb
> their school.  They learned this from the net, and they were just
> trying to re-live the exploits of the Okla. City assholes.  I love
> freedom, but I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of it for the public
> good.  It's all well and good for you Brits to argue about total
> freedom--you don't have teenagers brandishing Uzis and hosing down
> their own neighborhoods for fun.  Forget that the US is a screwed-up
> place, I acknowledge that.  But the guns and explosives are here, and
> here to stay.  I don't see how the freedom to learn how to use this
> shit is of any possible benefit to society

I guess the United States is lucky that the Founding Fathers did.

FoFP

"Those who would give up essential freedoms for a little security
deserve neither."

   -- Benjamin Franklin