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Re: Handgun Death Rate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:03:09 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> > > > Dave Schuler wrote:
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> > > > > Why should a witness feel a need to stop a crime, thereby placing himself
> > > > > in harms' way for a stranger?
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> > > Because people are basically good, and want to help? That's why I would and
> > > have in the past.
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> > Not to lessen the significance of your prior actions, but for the context of
> > this debate, were these life-or-death situations, on the street, in which you
> > put yourself in harm's way for a stranger?
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> Admittedly, no. At least as far as I knew, they weren't. At some remove, I
> can tell you I'd think I'd be less likely to intervene in a fist fight,
> though, than in a situation where someone had a gun drawn, assuming I was
> carrying. Fist fights are too dangerous. (I don't currently have a carry
> permit in Michigan, although I did in Florida)
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> People deride the "wild west" but it's my opinion that people were more
> likely to intervene and aid then than they are now.
Just out of interest, how do you go about determining whose side to come in on?
Jason J Railton
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| (...) Good question. I don't believe there is always a surefire way to tell. (1) In that case the goal ought to be to stop the violence. 1 - how were the Branch Davidians to know that trailers full of armed men crashing into their compound, guns (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Admittedly, no. At least as far as I knew, they weren't. At some remove, I can tell you I'd think I'd be less likely to intervene in a fist fight, though, than in a situation where someone had a gun drawn, assuming I was carrying. Fist fights (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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