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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!polymath.tti.com
- From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Trouble in MiraMesa
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.000021.12930@ttinews.tti.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 01:55:37 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: The Cat Factory
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1993Jan19.170624.15773@btree.uucp> btree!andy@UCSD.EDU (Andy Bosik) writes:
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- }... 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. ...
- }... it is very
- }hard to get him to practice with any frequency. ...
- }... He also has the attitude that if He ever has
- }to use the gun for defense,He'll "Shoot em in
- }the leg!".
-
- Sounds like your friend has some seriously unrealistic ideas about guns
- and marksmanship. How is he about safe handling? (Do you really want to
- share a house with someone that ignorant who's armed?)
-
- Another point: Since the gun is yours, _you_ are legally liable for it.
- I.e.: If your friend does something stupid with it _you_ could be sued
- for the damages. For that reason there are _very_ few people I'd let use
- one of my guns unsupervised. All of them are known to me to be well
- trained, knowledgeable and sensible.
-
- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
- Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp "If you can't stand solitude,
- 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (310) 450-9111, x2483 perhaps others find you boring
- Santa Monica, CA 90405 as well." -- Mark Twain
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