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- Subject: Re: More Gun Control
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- From: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:45:57 GMT
- Reply-To: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
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- In article <3Tpks*7-0@prolix.apana.org.au>, dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.222721.22480@igor.tamri.com>, Don Baldwin writes:
- >
- >> In article <fB8js*xZ0@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au
- >> (Andrew Clayton) writes:
- >
- >> >> All the bravado you can muster in words or body will do nothing to
- >> >> stop a machete wielding crack addict. Most of the time, they ignore
- >> >> guns pointed at them
- >> >
- >> >i.e. be an accident waiting to happen.
- >>
- >> Not necessarily. For example, one could keep a loaded double action revolver,
- >> with a trigger lock BEHIND the trigger. No way to fire it without removing
- >
- >"Hang on a minute, Mr Masked Attacker, I just need to find my
- >keys, get them out, and unlock the trigger lock on my
- >double-action revolver, and then I'm going to blow you away. Ta."
- >
- >Sure, Don. This is just so utterly and totally believable.
-
- Scene #1: The tent that my grandmother and grandfather were living in
- around 1921. My grandfather was away at work. My grandmother was in the
- tent. An Aboriginal American Gentleman (injun) approached the tent, wanting
- whiskey. My grandmother told the AAG that the tent he was looking for was a
- few hundred yards down the road, but he didn't believe her. She got out her
- rifle and told him to leave. He didn't. Instead, he hid behind a tree and
- taunted her. She shot him in the leg. He left.
-
- Scene #2: The trailer in Texas my uncle has been living in for the past
- decade or so. Inside the trailer were my uncle, his two stepsons, one of
- their wives, and a friend of theirs. For the previous seven years, my uncle
- and his wife had supported the two stepsons. In return, they harassed my
- uncle (beating him up once), cultivated a drug habit, and the eldest stepson
- had recently been brought up on charges for molesting his 9-year-old daughter. On this
- On this particular day, the two stepsons told my uncle in no uncertain terms
- that they were going to beat him again. He got out his pistol. After a few
- minutes of arguing, they started pushing him around. He shot one in the neck
- and one in the chest. They both died.
-
- In both of these situations, there was a difference of at least a few
- minutes between the time that my relative picked up the gun and the time that
- he or she fired - this is plenty of time to remove a trigger lock. I suspect
- that this is the case in most situations of this type. I'd hate to see what
- would have happened if they hadn't had a gun. Grandma probably wouldn't have
- been hurt, but my uncle Wayne would probably be dead now. I wonder what
- would have happened to Dac.
-
- !Peeve: My grandma. It's hard to beleive that such a sweet little 96 year
- old woman not only shot a man once, but the also beat a would-be horse thief
- with a horse whip (she was in the buggy at the time) until he fell off the
- horse.
-
-
- - Gerald Combs
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