Quoting Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: snip > It > makes no difference whether he is an American Marine in Korea or an American > Woman in Kentucky. snip Phil clearly fails to recognize that some maxims are transcendentally valid - i.e., universally necessary and hence universally applicable. Like the Constitutional "right to bear arms." Phil, you gotta get a (noumenal) life! Walter Okshevsky Hans Kelsen Professor of Universal Law and Hermeneutics University of Wolfau, Austria Neither, if he has a brain in his or her head will let > criminals come after him or her. The old lady was announcing here > willingness to stand up to them. I didn't need to announce my willingness, > but we were both willing. We both possessed common sense, apparently unlike > Leftist-Pacifists. We both knew/know, that you do not let bad guys come > after you if you can prevent it. > > Have you never heard the gun-control plaint: "there's no point in a woman > having a gun because the predators will just take it away from them and > probably use it on them." There is at least one old lady in Kentucky who was > feisty enough to make one set of bad guys think they had no chance of taking > away her gun. And anti-gunners have the unmitigated gall to criticize her, > and then descend into an anti-victim abyss by criticizing this lady for > announcing her willingness to use her gun if necessary. > > > Lawrence > > > ------------Original Message------------ > From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Mon, Apr-23-2007 3:52 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Mark Steyn on Gun Control > Lawrence Helm wrote: > > "You do not let an enemy (aka bad guy, predator, etc) approach you. An > enemy has no legitimate reason for doing so." > > > Again, Lawrence confuses Kentucky with Korea. Really, if we are going to > abandon logic and claim that different things are the same, then there > isn't > much hope for this discussion. > > > Sincerely, > > Phil Enns > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html