gnu, you're making a lot of assumptions as to whether those of us who have posted have been trained in gun safety or not.

Growing up in the West, learning how to use a gun SAFELY was commonplace when I was a kid. Even then, idiots would come out for hunting season and shoot mules/horses/etc. "by mistake" one of which was decked out completely in orange. Now, it still happens, though it seems they shoot each other more than other critters, which is fine with me.

Bertdarlin'...wouldn't make any difference if he DID know how to use a mic, he still doesn't make any sense:

Bush Explains Medicare Drug Bill

Verbatim Quote

WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: "I don't really understand. How is the new plan
going to fix the problem?"


PRESIDENT BUSH: (Verbatim response)

"Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big
cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example,
is on the table. Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage
increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the
formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those
different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with
personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more
likely to be -- or closer delivered to that has been promised. Does
that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a
series of things that cause the -- like, for example, benefits are
calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the
increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate -- the
benefits will rise based upon inflation, supposed to wage increases.
There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put
into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the
promised benefits grow, if those -- if that growth is affected, it
will help on the red."