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- From: donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Trouble in MiraMesa
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.003145.10202@igor.tamri.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 04:03:14 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA
- Lines: 52
- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
-
- In article <1993Jan19.170624.15773@btree.uucp> btree!andy@UCSD.EDU
- (Andy Bosik) writes:
- #Hey Y'all!
- #I have a dellemma at the house I live at.
- #I rent a room a a friends house,and my friend
- #likes keeping one of my guns,a Ruger GP100
- #.357 revolver, in His room for self-protection.
-
- Hmm, I can see how that could be awkward. In the end though, you are
- responsible (perhaps legally) for his use of your gun, so you should
- probably insist that he practice with it.
-
- #He seems to feel that once You know the basics
- #of how to shoot a gun,You don't need regular
- #practice,which I feel is an ignorant,and
- #dangerous attitude.
-
- I think that's a little strong, although I'd be hard-put to say
- exactly how. I do feel that he's wrong, though.
-
- #What should I do? Should I not continue to allow
- #Him to use the .357,hoping that nothing trajic
- #happens due to lack of training,or rusty marksmanship?
- #Should I just tell Him he's not allowed to use my
- #firearms as long as He has such an irresponsable
- #attitude,and hope no attackers break-in if He's
- #home-alone? How often should a revolver user
- #train? My personal feeling is that He should
- #go shooting with me at least once a month.
-
- I'd tell him that he can't keep it in his room unless he practices
- at LEAST once a month, it being a revolver. It's not like you're
- asking hm to practice twice a week or something...
-
- #He also has the attitude that if He ever has
- #to use the gun for defense,He'll "Shoot em in
- #the leg!".
-
- Is he for real? I don;t know how ANYONE could expect this, most
- especially someone who doesn't practice!
-
- A female friend of mine is Swiss; her father lives over there near Basel
- and a disgruntled ex-employee has threatened to come into work shooting.
- My friend's father, who is actually supposed to be a good competitive
- shooter, intends to shoot him in the leg, if he comes to work armed.
- When I tried to tell her that I thought his attitude was dangerous, she
- said that 1) her dad is a very good shot and 2) there's no reason to
- just kill the guy.
-
- Aargh.
-
- don
-