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To: Ilaine who wrote (12308)12/11/2006 6:00:11 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 218135
 
Condolences to you and your family. How comes I never needed a gun? Lived 31 years in Brazil, of which 10 years travelling as a field engineer. A total of nine in Nigeria and the only countries I lived that can be called civilized was 1 and 1/2 in Sweden and 1 and 1/2 in Czech Republic.

The only time I wished I had a gun were the times I saw stupidity in front of me:

I was under heavy rain, lights on at a dusk, a truck loaded with sugar cane entered the main road from the left and got my whole lane. I was doing at most 60Km/h (about 40 miles/h for the US folks).

I braked as softly as I could as I got in to the road shoulder (which was grass) to avoid blocking the wheels and spin out of control (no ABS in 1978. I squeezed my station wagon on the small gap between the trucks bumper swerving around on my left and the ditch and cliff at my righthand side. Only my skills saved that day of a frontal colision and certain death.

Had I had a gun that day I would have turned around, go behind the guy and shoot the driver. As I cooled my head down in the next gas station (and wait for my legs to stop shaking), drinking a coffee, I said to myself I should never even onw a gun, in those situations I would kill some idiot.

Never owned. Don't advise anyone to do.
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