OFF: Founding dad dudes, and guns

[Arjan Hulsebos]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:51:18 +0100, M Holmes wrote
> Arjan Hulsebos writes:
> 
> > Mike Holmes typed:
> 
> > > When fighting politicians there's also the option of assassination. 
> > > All that takes is one gun and good luck or good planning.  The very
> > > existence of the right to keep and bear arms must make politicians
> > > just a little better behaved than they might otherwise be.
> 
> > So you'd say that US politicians are behaving themselves better than
> > European politicians?
> 
> Some just get more guards. Still, I'd rather have a pol toe-tapping 
> in the Gents than robbing us blind the way the French ones do.

The French must have forgotten the ways of the Guillotine, then ;-)
Still, I don't buy it. Even in the US, chances are pretty slim of getting shot
by an unhappy constituant.

Gr,

Arjan H