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| Reply-To: cjc@newsguy.com Followup-To: (...) Demonstrate a need to own anything other than plaid pants or frilly pink shirts. Demonstrate a need to own more than one pair of shoes. It's none of your or anyone else's business why I own a gun, (...) (26 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| <snip> (...) I think this point comes close to getting at why folks are a little leery of semi-automatic and automatic weapons so readily available. Because most of the population is *not* as responsible and conscientious about using their weapons (...) (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Perhaps if HCI wanted to make a better world they'd push for things that would incent people to be as responsible as Mike (and myself, I fancy to think) are. Then we'd be safe from all manner of ills which cannot be wished out of existance. (...) (26 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) What's HCI? (...) On the open road, you are only seconds away from death. Scary thought, the first time you realize it. Especially if you're doing 70MPH through a forest area at the time. In case anyone hasn't noticed, I see a *big* parallel (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Actually, unless theres an amendment I'm not aware of, you don't have the right to own a car. You have the opportunity to own a car, like any property, based on their availability and your financial capability. You can be granted the (...) (26 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) So true. I hit a turkey last year. Damn thing stepped out of the brush and started to walk onto the road. In slow motion, I see its legs flex and launch itself into the air....... SMACK! Right into the windshield on the passenger side. Thought (...) (26 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) And old granddads. While we're at it, get rid of Johnny Walker! (...) Still applies. Followups set to .pun (26 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) And if you did this in TN, you could have turkey for dinner. Steve (26 years ago, 19-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Just as long as you don't get rid of Bushmills. (26 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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| (...) Now _that_ (the latter) would be an improvement. Jasper (26 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| On Sun, 16 May 1999 16:26:40 GMT, Mike Stanley uttered the following profundities... (...) Unable for those particular items. However, as stated elsewhere, requested the information to lead to understanding and enlightenment. It is possible to (...) (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) If I were a mindreader and could know what I was dealing with was a petty thief who wanted nothing more than my television or my toys, then MAYBE, just maybe I wouldn't shoot him to death. Given the fact that I would more than likely be (...) (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) As much as anyone can. Can you rule out the possibility that you might freak out and decide to use your automobile as a deadly weapon? Since you can not rule that out any more than Mike can rule out the same WRT his handgun(s), I figure that (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Right. Just pop a cap in each knee and let the f@*#er get away easy. :-) (...) Right. Ya pays ya money ya takes ya chances. The burgler chose a line of work that was likely to be short-lived. (...) Oops, maybe I was wrong in my earlier note. (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Ha, so he could go find himself a bloodsucker and sue *you*!! And he'd prolly win. It's the American Way... (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| On Mon, 31 May 1999 23:10:10 GMT, Mike Stanley uttered the following profundities... <snipped for brevity> (...) Perhaps I might have worded it more specifically, such as you surprise a burglar, wearing shorts, no shirt, holding a tv or castle in (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:45:08 GMT, Christopher L. Weeks uttered the following profundities... (...) And, as much as I hate guns, can no more say now how my opinions would change (or not) had I or someone close to me been, or should become, a victim of (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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