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Subject: 
Re: guns vs. household cleaners vs. gamers (was Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?)
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Date: 
Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:35:15 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
One of my friends (age ~14) mocked him [35 year old lunatic (my term, not
Chris')] and he threatened to beat the crap out of him [the 14 year old].

My friend laughed at him and suggested that he might be able to outrun the
tubby old guy.  The "tubby old guy" revealed a revolver strapped to his ankle
and said "You can't beat the bullet."

  Yikes!  Is that sort of sociopathy legally actionable in any way?  It
doesn't seem to me too far-fetched that a jerk sufficiently insecure and out
of balance to threaten a 14 year old with both fist and firearm might act on
his those same impulses at some other opportunity.

However, I found that typically the current generation of live-action
roleplayers are less-than-fully socialized, too.

Gee, you think?

  I know, it's hard to believe.

     Dave!
     Dave!



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  Re: guns vs. household cleaners vs. gamers (was Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?)
 
(...) I'm pretty sure that it would be called assault. Possibly assault with a deadly weapon. I'm sure it was a felony. My friend was startled for a moment and then recovered by shout-laughing something like 'you're going to shoot me because we (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  guns vs. household cleaners vs. gamers (was Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?)
 
(...) firearms. (...) I do know of a young woman filling an electric Uzi-style squirtgun with bleach and using to deface people. But I agree that it's pretty rare. But, people lobbying/arguing/whining against guns invariably say that it's for the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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