On 3 Jul 2006 02:51:02 -0700, "Jordan"
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On 2 Jul 2006 20:44:34 -0700, "Jordan"
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No, it's a reference to Lyn David Thomas' hilarious argument a long
time ago in a "Plagues" scenario that survivors of a global plague
couldn't get goods by looting abandoned cities because the feral dogs
would keep them out. When we pointed out to him that even small groups
of humans could easily fight off virtually any number of feral dogs by
shooting a few and scaring the rest with the gunfire, Lyn then tried to
argue that in most countries the survivors would be unable to get their
hands on guns to do this.

He forgot, of course, about the military and police arsenals. Lyn's
reasoning got really amusing when this was pointed out to him.

"reasoning"?

Well, IIRC Lyn's first argument was that the weapons would no longer be
available because most of the police and soldiers would be dead. When
I pointed out to him that dropped weapons rarely commit suicide in
grief for the deaths of their owners, he then decided that unspecified
people would grab all the weapons and refuse to trade any of them for
anything anyone else could offer. They apparently also would refuse to
kill the feral dogs with them. Gave me images of a more martial
Scrooge McDuck building a "rifle bin" and going swimming in them ...

It was *sarcasm*, Jordan!

Phil

Author, Space Opera (FGU), RBB #1 (FASA), Road to Armageddon (PGD).
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