Re: OT: Unsolicted Email from NG Participants

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Let's stop acting as if this were a simple issue. It isn't, and it doesn't
have simple answers. My wife has a very strong distrust of guns, which
inclines her to the view that they should all be banned. People who have
suffered injury from malefactors with guns tend to think that anything that
reduces the chances of this occurrence would be a boon. In my own
experience, I know how easily kids can be stressed to the point of
threatening with guns, even when they know better, and it's not all that
much different with adults.

This depends upon many factors, the degree of 'take' with use-training for
one, but probably more acutely upon the ability of society in general to
impose social standards for resolution of conflict, viz. 'taking matters
into one's own hands.' This attitude has been socially encouraged for many
years now-- 'I did it my way . . ' and many other examples of the same
attitude in different guises. We now have a crew of politicians and
would-be political masters loose on the national scene who feel nothing
wrong in trying to stir up suspicion, hatred, and revulsion for anyone whose
ideas differ from theirs, merely to gain popular advantage.

Personally, though I don't have any guns, I like the idea of being able to
own one, should I want to. Not just because I might want it for protection,
nor for hunting. My Dad hunted when he could, and though I never developed
the interest in it, I have some understanding for those who do. I also
don't like any restriction of personal freedom, but it looks very much like
the price of so many of us living in more intimate contact with one another
(and the net makes it just that much more so) has in the past always led to
the surrender of some of those personal freedoms, or at least to the
restriction of them.

It doesn't look to get any better in the immediate future. *Compromise* on
all sides is the only way we'll all be able to live together. Take a tip
from the middle east.

Joe
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Leythos wrote:
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It's really sad that people like that exist, but they do, and, as we
work with the local LE groups, we see it all to often, mostly
involving
online dating and kids under 18. The good thing is that in America you
can still own a gun/rifle/shot-gun, so you can protect yourself
against
people trying to get into your home/space.

Not to mention having the guns handy in case your kids want to play at
Columbine.

I should have known you were an NRA type.

LOL, I'm not a NRA member and I don't support Political groups.

I do teach advanced rifle methods to groups of kids under 18 for a
national organization dedicated to kids.

In all the years that we had access to guns when I was a kid, I can't
think of any single incident where one was used to harm anyone else - in
our area of town. In those days kids were taught what they were, how to
use them, what they can do, and to actually shoot them, so they have a
clear understanding they are not toys. At the same time, while I have a
number of weapons, they are locked in cases, ammo in another locked
area, realoading powder another area, etc...

In the 10+ years I've known about this training for kids, 3 that I've
been involved personally, not one kid, past or present, has been
involved in any accident or shooting of any type. Oh, and the insurance
for the kids is cheaper than any other club in the organization, all of
which are non-weapon related.

Tell that to the relatives of the Columbine victims. I am sure they will
understand. Tell that to John Lennon's widow Yoko. Tell that to Abraham
Lincoln's descendants. Tell that to JFK's descendants.

But I expected that type of statement from someone that left the USA.

Leaving the USA is not a crime. I am very happy here. Why do you have a
problem with that or was that just a cheap "shot" due to your being out
of "ammo" in your arguments?

Alias


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