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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (5890)2/15/2001 9:43:16 PM
From: Dayuhan   of 82486
 
I don't see any inconsistency in a gun owner who doesn't believe in universal gun ownership. I grew up in a firly heavily armed household, and received a .22 for my 8th birthday. I shot competitively for a number of years in my teens, on a college team, went to Camp Perry twice. Through all this I was taught by people who made a near fetish of gun safety.

I was hunting with my father one day, in my mid-teens, when we came upon a group of utter boors, guzzling whisky and blazing away indiscriminately at a #10 can on a fencepost, no more that 50 yards away. The can was still on the post after several dozen shots. Ever since then I've known that there are people who should not be armed. I realize now the practical difficulty and potential injustice involved in drawing the line between those who should be allowed to and those who should not be allowed to, but I still believe in restricted gun ownership.
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