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Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:54:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:

>   In essence, my objection is not to guns or to gun ownership, but instead to
> the "shoot first, end of story" mindset that is rampant in the US.
> 
>      Dave!

Very well put.  I'd say I agree with 99% of that.  Pumping a shotgun is a rather
dramatic sound, eh?  Tangent, but I always find it interesting that in movies,
the action of the gun is always shown (heard) before the actual firing, simply
because it's a sound that illicits fear and is plain cool.

-Chris



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  Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
 
(...) Good point, but here's something that's always bothered me. Very often we'll see some menacing fellow onscreen brandishing a .45 or even a shotgun, and by brandishing it he coerces some other character to undertake some action or inaction. But (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
 
(...) My favorite is the sound of a cocking gun in a movie with a hammerless gun. Or sounds of Bruce Campbell racking the slide on his double-barrel shotgun. -->Bruce<-- Good, bad: I'm the guy with the keyboard. (23 years ago, 29-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
 
(...) As one of the Daves in this go-around, I'll offer my thoughts in response. I should underscore outright that I'm definitely not anti-gun. I admit that I have leaned more in that direction in the past, but my opinion has evolved, and I no (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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