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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (5905)	2/15/2001 1:41:47 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I have been told it is because in the days when lots of people carried concealed weapons it paid to be polite to everyone! Gee, I've been trying, with only limited success, to get people to be polite to everyone here on this thread. Maybe the answer is not moderated SI threads but the cyber equivalent of a concealed weapon. Getting serious now. To implement this approach it would, over time, become necessary for everyone to carry a concealed weapon to defend themselves and others. That's a lot of hardware. And a lot of overhead. If someone were proposing, say, an environmental regulation with that kind of overhead there would be calls for cost/benefit analyses and complaints of over-regulation. Since no everyone could afford a gun, the government would probably have to set up a Medicaid equivalent for poor folk. After all, their lives were dependent on carrying a weapon. The courts would surely rule that they had a right to a gun. Sooner or later some anti-tax group would scream for gun reform. Wouldn't that be an interesting turn of events? Karen