If people are going to ridicule Geary, I will ridicule Helm. Of the silliness and stupidity of gunfighter examples there is no end. You take the madman's gun and, then..... What do you do about the madman's 68 million relatives and their billion plus cousins who still have guns and are convinced that the man with the loaded gun is not only crazy but a homicidal threat to them? The gunfighter analogy is on a par with the neocon argument pre-Iraq that all we had to do was knock off Saddam, be greated with cheers and showers of roses, install a free market democracy, and all would be so well. Idiocy, in the strict sense. -- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd. 55-13-202 Miyagaya, Nishi-ku Yokohama 220-0006, JAPAN ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html