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Pastimes : Do handguns serve a purpose other than killing people?
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To: TheTruth who wrote (259)9/25/1999 4:33:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 289
 
If you have read the thread, you already know that guns have uses other than killing people. That's TheTruth.
And killing wildlife (disregard the loaded adjective "innocent") is by no means a sick pastime. That too is TheTruth.
Thirdly, if someone threatens me with serious bodily harm - what would you have me do? My instinct is to reach for a concealed large-caliber handgun - and that will either dissuade my assailant or it will earn his death (or maiming). He earned it, and that once again is TheTruth.
And finally, you are obliquely suggesting a discontinuation of legal handgun ownership. To what purpose? Never ever forget that Adolf Hitler instituted gun control with the pretext being "the safety of the people". The real deal was of course the removal of a truly democratic obstacle to tyranny. If our politicians have the same level of power - and a gun ban would be a key to this - what would prevent them from ultimately accumulating total control over our lives and thoughts? Media? Newspapers? Net access? Not a blessed thing, and that is TheTruth.

Sure, guns kill people. But not all gun deaths are criminal in nature. Never Forget That. Guns (including concealed, carried, civil-owned, large-caliber handguns!) Save Lives, and that is TheTruth.
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