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- From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: More Gun Control
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.223824.14600@igor.tamri.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 22:38:24 GMT
- References: <1jqp5fINN246@lynx.unm.edu> <1993Jan23.150327.17644@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1jrrl6INNlh6@titan.ucs.umass.edu>
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- In article <1jrrl6INNlh6@titan.ucs.umass.edu> jennyg@titan.ucs.umass.edu
- (Well Paid in Name Only) writes:
- >Having spent a great deal of time in California with big burly men who own
- >firearms (and a couple of skinny emaciated men who own firearms) I've
-
- FYI, I also know some womanly women who have firearms; they however seem
- loathe to go public about it, as men do.
-
- >actually discussed this topic quite a bit. The immediate assumption made
- >when I say that I think it should be difficult for people to get guns is
- >that I think that this will somehow keep weapons from the hands of criminals
- >or psychopaths. Of course not. So far we have no good method of distinguish-
- >ing criminals and psychopaths from normal folk. At least, not the really
- >dangerous ones.
- >
- >Idiots, however, are a different question all together. Idiots can be
- >spotted fairly easily. And people who are not idiots per se, but have
- >large pockets of idiocy within them, can have it explained to them before
- >they try to use a gun.
-
- You're talking accidents here, right? It's already been pointed out that
- the accident trend is on the decline...
-
- >Atually, Banta was most helpful. He told me this neat trick that really seemed
- >to make a difference - he said "Before you fire the gun, aim it." I probably
- >wouldn't come up with a sound strategy like that until I'd had years of
- >practice.
-
- Also keep your finger OUTSIDE of the trigger guard until you have aimed it.
- But, to continue...
-
- >So I say, make people prove they ain't idjits, and make sure they get training
- >from big men with lots of testosterone before setting 'em loose with weapons.
-
- I am 100% for safety training, I'm just not willing to see it mandated by
- poiticians. Some financial incentive (e.g., rebate) provided by gun makers
- seems ideal to me!
-
- >ObPeeve: I'll be 29 on Wednesday, and am therefore nearly at the end of
- >the trustable period of my life.
-
- Feh, a mere child. I'l be 33 in September...
-
- don
-