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From: Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Renegade's Gun Mod's
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 00:45:43 +0930
Marc A Renouf wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Apr 1995, P Ward wrote:
>
> > Hey Damion, really. I'm not a gun-nut, I've never owned, fired, or even
> > touched a real firearm in my life. They scare the shit out of me.
>
> Probably because you've never owned, fired, or even touched one.
> Being from a rural area in Michigan, guns are a fact of life. Everybody
> has at least one, mainly for hunting. If you grow up around them,
> they're not so scary. You just have more respect for them is all.

Guns don't scare me, unless they've been poorly maintained and are liable
to go off. People scare me. Americans scare me more than most. City
Americans, that is... I don't like rural Americans (I don't like farmboys
in general), but that don't scare me.

Lawyers scare me worse.

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Robert Watkins bob@**.ntu.edu.au
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are around at 9 am, it's because they were up all night.
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