VLVL "betrayal, cowardice, destructiveness, and lying" (81)

[joeallonby]

on 5/3/04 6:39 AM, Otto at ottosell at yahoo.de wrote:

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> From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 1:12 AM
> Subject: VLVL "betrayal, cowardice, destructiveness, and lying" (81)
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> 
> I don't deny that there has been betrayal, cowardice and lying among the
> Hollywood-people in the fifties as well as among the nonconformist new left
> in the sixties. But the destructiveness has been put upon all these people
> by criminal government agents. This is what the novel tells too, the gun is
> delivered by Brock. Rex did not go to the next store to buy a gun, which, as
> we all know, is relatively easy in the US, but uses the gun smuggled in by
> Frenesi to shoot Weed Atman.
> 
> Otto
> 
Didn't California alter its gun laws in the sixties due to the Black
Panthers exploitation of liberal gun laws? (That's small "l" liberal.)

I think handguns may have been at least temporarily harder to get due to the
establishment wishes to deny them to militants.