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Re: Trying to understand
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:20:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Duane Hess writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > > Trigger locks increase the time it takes (me, anyway) to get my gun
> > > ready to use, when I am operating in total darkness and in silent mode,
> > > by a large enough amount that they seriously decrease my personal
> > > safety. Where would you like me to keep the key to a trigger lock so
> > > that I can find it in the dark without making any noise but so that it's
> > > safe from my kids finding it? My kids are clever but not persistent
> > > enough to guess a 4 digit combination lock.
> >
> >
> > That is a good point. However, I still feel that the trigger locks
> > should be in place when a gun is sold. Whether or not they remain
> > there after the gun is sold, I have no control of.
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> My issue there is the slippery slope. Just as with seatbelts. Note well that I
> support seat belt usage and I've even come to terms with mandatory seat belt
> usage. But once locks are required to be shipped, it's not much of a stretch • to
> "required to be used at all times"
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> > Having the lock in place to me, reinforces the
> > notion to the buyer that the gun is not a toy and that special precautions
> > need to be taken with it to avoid accidents.
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> > > Trigger locks are a direct attack on the notion of using a gun in self
> > > defense.
> >
> > Could you expand on this statement for me.
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> See above. If their use becomes mandatory, it interferes with the ability to
> use a gun in home defense for reasons I outlined.
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> ++Lar
I have this silly picture in my mind of a western showdown at high noon, where
the two participants square off. Crowds gather. Sweat drips down their faces.
Steely eyes glare unblinkingly. Fingers twitch, waiting for the other guy to
make the first move (why you would want to wait on the other guy is beyond me,
but let's go with the flow). Suddenly hands flash, slap leather, cut down
barrels glint, then one guy starts speed-dialing his combination lock while the
other rifles through his key ring. The crowd yawns and slowly disperses...
:-)
Bruce
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| (...) faces. (...) the (...) That IS rather an amusing tableaux! Thanks. As to why you wait for the other guy, according to all the western lore I absorbed from all those movies, it's so that you are acting in self defense, he started it... seems (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) My issue there is the slippery slope. Just as with seatbelts. Note well that I support seat belt usage and I've even come to terms with mandatory seat belt usage. But once locks are required to be shipped, it's not much of a stretch to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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