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Re: My Gun Control Rant
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:09:34 GMT
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Bill Farkas wrote:
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> I disagree. Guns are designed to fire ammunition. Period.
Very well put....I must thank you for this as I tend to somehow end up
discussing gun control fairly regularily recently and I've never
actually heard it put this way....I shall remember it.
> And I believe Lar bought his weapon for self defense, not because he's a
> maniac who desires to kill people. If someone dies in the act of him
> defending himself and his, that is a by-product, and not his intent. I know
> he boasted of buying it to kill but, no rational human being who has ever
> had the horrible misfortune of having been in a situation where his actions
> have caused the demise of another human being will spout bluster or bravado
> about such an act. Anyone who does is lying. And, God forbid, if Lar should
> find himself in such a situation he would change his tone (I hope).
I agree here. To kill another human being I would believe is quite an
undertaking emotionally, and I hope I am never in a situation where I
have to deal with it, but to revel in it seems extremely cold-hearted no
matter how "bad" the person at the wrong end of the barrel.
--
-TiM
NB, CA
http://echofx.itgo.com
t_c_c@yahoo.com
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| (...) I disagree profoundly. There is a huge difference between pointing a gun at someone in order to prevent myself (or someone else) from being killed, and pointing a gun at someone to kill them. My intent is not to kill them, it is to stop them (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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