The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)

[bandwraith at aol.com]

I guess you must have missed the first two premises of my post, which, 
I admit, was tongue-in-cheek. With "smart gun" technology the weapon 
can only be fired by the person to whom it is registered.

The last part of my post was not so tongue-in-cheek. Women may drive 
men to drink or, as Shakespeare intimated, demonstrate at times some 
especially annoying fraility and fecklessness, but they do not, as a 
rule, commit large scale random acts of massacre. They do not, in 
general, run amok, or dress up as a policeman and murder scores of 
innocent teens in Norway, or break into churches and mow down tens of 
worshippers, or any other numerous examples of random murderous 
violence, often directed at people with no connection to them 
whatsoever.

These are particularly male behaviors. In China, for example, where 
guns are not so prevalent, school attacks are carried out by males 
using other weapons:

   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_(2010%E2%80%932011)

Clearly, it is not just guns, although guns make it so much easier to 
spue wholesale random death.

This is a male disease and it needs to be acknowledged as such. To 
downplay that aspect of the recent tragedy is to take away from the 
amazing and courageous bravery of those women at the school who gave 
their lives to save at least some of the children.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 11:08 pm
Subject: Re: The fix (Was Re: NP Misc.)


Women will promptly hand those guns over to some man,  either "Mr. 
Right"  or a
son or a brother - someone.   The Sandy Hook killer's guns were 
registered in
his mom's name.

Bekah

On Dec 15, 2012, at 4:15 PM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:

> 1. Adopt "Smart Gun" technology for all new guns.
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>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Gun
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> 2. After a grace period, all new ammunition must be smart gun 
specific- i.e.,
will only work in smart guns.
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> 3. Women can legally buy as many guns, bazookas, rocket launchers, 
etc., as
the like.
>   3a. Men cannot and are not permitted to own guns of any kind.
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> Because actually, the problem is not guns, its testosterone. Women
occassionally go nuts and drown their kids, or drag them into a suicide
scenario, but this is rare. There are, to my knowledge, no documented 
massacres
of innocents by women in the U.S. All of them have been perpetrated by 
men. We
need to acknowledge this fact and deal with it accordingly.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> To: Amany Rocco Kaiser <amanyroccokaiser at hotmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sat, Dec 15, 2012 2:14 pm
> Subject: Re: NP Misc.
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> I heartily agree. Twain spoke to it a hundred years back, to the 
effect that
we ignite a bunker and throw each other into the flames. Let's see, 
how'd he put
that.... "We build a fire in a powder magazine, then double the fire 
department
to put it out. We inflame wild beasts with the smell of blood, and then
innocently wonder at the wave of brutal appetite that sweeps the land 
as a
consequence." - Speech, between October 5 and October 17, 1907. We feed
psychotropic drugs to people whose minds are already weakened and 
deluded into a
perspective that sees slaughter as common and who are living hopelessly 
at the
edge, then we sell them guns. All the guns they want.
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> Al queda won, exposing the greatest terrorist network ever devised. 
And we are
that.
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> A Dionysian age is in its full frenzy, taking innocents by the score. 
The
Apollonians have work to do. I think few generations have been called 
upon to
rebuild on the ruins of such a society as reigns today, but the coming
generation is tasked with just that. My question is how can we help, 
now that we
have let so much that is bad take root? There's work to be done, that 
much I
believe.
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> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Amany Rocco Kaiser 
<amanyroccokaiser at hotmail.com>
wrote:
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> We must consider what is behind it.
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>>> It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
> society.<<
> If it is a matter of "guilt," the people will not be the great judge 
of this
court. Because the indictee here is the people themselves ...
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> ARK
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>> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:48:49 -0500
>> Subject: Re: NP Misc.
>> From: richard.romeo at gmail.com
>> To: markekohut at yahoo.com
>> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
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>> considering what's happened in Connecticut today, a very heavy 
feeling
>> weighs one down. suppose thats what u were referring, too
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>> Hartford Courant @hartfordcourant
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>> One entire classrom is unaccounted for outside the school, sources
> said
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>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> > "The tragic is above all a property which we observe in events,
> fortunes,
>> > characters and the like, wnd which actually
>> > exists in them. We might say that it is given off by them like a
> heavy
>> > breath, or seems like an obscure glimmering that surrounds them."
>> > ---On the Tragic, Max
>> > Scheler, 1954
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