Comment Re: ESR - Go Home Gun Nut (Score 1) 176
> "Glad to see ESR back?"
I am. His slightly egotistic writing grates with
even me - but I'm an egotist too so I forgive
him.
Seriously, he's an accomplished coder, writer and
ambassador to the movement. His slant on the basic
precepts of Free Software: "Open Source", have
caused some internal angst. But shit happens,
frankly.
>I'm still reeling from his comments on linux.com about gun control -
>
> Personal firearms are the teeth of liberty. A disarmed population is one waiting to be enslaved or massacred at the convenience of
> tyrants -- as Jefferson knew, Germany's Jews found out
It surprised me, but not much. Spend some time rummagine through
ESR's pages on Guns and Gun control and you'll see that he
believes in this stuff very strongly.
I had an email debate with him on the topic, not long after
Australia's horrific Port Arthur Massacre. For the unknowing
amongst you, a psychopath - a clinical psychopath - legally
got hold of a military assault weapon and slaughtered dozens
of holiday-makers.
Australian gun laws were tightened dramatically after that.
One local pundit observed that perhaps the massacre wouldn't
have happened, if everyone had been armed - Martin Bryant
would have been shot dead.
Would he though? Would these people *hit* Bryant - armed with
an automatic weapon - with pistols? Would they be alive?
Would they hit each other? Would they have known who the
gunman was? And would they be there - would they have died
earlier in an impulse murder or impulse suicide?
The defense of freedom is essential, however. But I do not
agree with Raymond that I will need guns to defend mine.
>Oh those silly Jews! If they had only paid up their NRA memberships
>they would have never got into that mess!
"And God so loved the world ..."
Be well;
JC.
I am. His slightly egotistic writing grates with
even me - but I'm an egotist too so I forgive
him.
Seriously, he's an accomplished coder, writer and
ambassador to the movement. His slant on the basic
precepts of Free Software: "Open Source", have
caused some internal angst. But shit happens,
frankly.
>I'm still reeling from his comments on linux.com about gun control -
>
> Personal firearms are the teeth of liberty. A disarmed population is one waiting to be enslaved or massacred at the convenience of
> tyrants -- as Jefferson knew, Germany's Jews found out
It surprised me, but not much. Spend some time rummagine through
ESR's pages on Guns and Gun control and you'll see that he
believes in this stuff very strongly.
I had an email debate with him on the topic, not long after
Australia's horrific Port Arthur Massacre. For the unknowing
amongst you, a psychopath - a clinical psychopath - legally
got hold of a military assault weapon and slaughtered dozens
of holiday-makers.
Australian gun laws were tightened dramatically after that.
One local pundit observed that perhaps the massacre wouldn't
have happened, if everyone had been armed - Martin Bryant
would have been shot dead.
Would he though? Would these people *hit* Bryant - armed with
an automatic weapon - with pistols? Would they be alive?
Would they hit each other? Would they have known who the
gunman was? And would they be there - would they have died
earlier in an impulse murder or impulse suicide?
The defense of freedom is essential, however. But I do not
agree with Raymond that I will need guns to defend mine.
>Oh those silly Jews! If they had only paid up their NRA memberships
>they would have never got into that mess!
"And God so loved the world
Be well;
JC.
