The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11070   Message #80459
Posted By: Fadac
21-May-99 - 10:43 AM
Thread Name: Hesitatingly, GUNS again
Subject: RE: Hesitatingly, GUNS again
My two cents worth.

I hate to break anyones bubble, but not all guns are built to kill people. Some are built to kill the very deadly empty tin can. Others are built to shoot down in a powdery crash, the once famous clay pidgen.

We really don't need more laws, just enforce the ones we have now. Passing another law, only to have it ignored later, is just a big waste of time and effort.

For example; It is considered ileagle to drive an automobile while under the influance of alachol. However there are something like 50K deaths a year attribuited to drunk driving. OK so lets make booze ileagle. They tried that in the 1920s. The main result of that was the Mafia.

Of course in America, you can have someone run you off the road, killing you and your family, and killing themselves and thier family, to beat you to an exit because they are late for the "anti war" rally, because they are aginst killing. Or perhaps they are late for an hair appointment.

BTW, somebody asked what I do for parenting. Well I'm a parent of two. (both grown up now, both engineers.) And I still work with youth in the Civil Air Patrol. (Funny thing about CAP, they specilize in saving lives, yet sometimes I'm REQUIRED to have a gun in the airplane. It is part of my survival kit. Yes it is there to kill, so are my fish hooks, gill net, and snair. For some reason I feel that people are more important than bunny rabbits. Expecily when you are 250 miles from downtown nowhere. ) (Oh, btw it is a .22 over .410 double barrel single shot. There are other guns out there besides AK-47.)

At least it is Friday. Have a good weekend...