The right to bear arms?

On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 04:26 PM, victoriatangoman wrote:

> If you're an American, this issue is near and dear to about 1/2 of
> the population! What makes you think that the NRA advocates are
> going to capitulate on this issue if the Habitat is an off-shoot of
> American culture and society?
>

I am an American, and the NRA is welcome to as many habitats as they
can build. My habitat will have few, or no, firearms, and they will be
very strictly regulated. If anyone in my habitat wants firearms, they
will be free to move to any NRA habitat that will take them. We will,
of course, have habitat defenses in case the NRA habitats get any ideas
...

The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~150 times the surface area of the Earth in
usable real estate. See http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/
for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

Views expressed in this email are only my opinions and are not the
position of any organization I'm familiar with.