Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (1783)	10/9/2000 1:08:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

I don't know how "many" people there are "protected" in this way. And I suspect that neither do you. So I'm not sure you CAN know that the number of rage shootings outweighs the number of defensive shootings. I wasn't compareing rage shootings to defencive shootings. I was compareing "people have so much rage in them they can kill someone over children's sports, or 'roadrage'", to defensive use of firearms. Defensive use is not limited to shooting. If you attack me, and I shoot you, or scare you away with a gun, or hold you at bay until I can turn you over to a cop (all of which would be hard for me to do as I do not own a gun), then it would have been an example of defensive use of a firearm. Defensive uses of firearms outnumber the combined incidents of road rage shootings and murders over children's sports by an enormous amount. Tim

To: epicure who wrote (1783)	10/9/2000 10:15:26 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 10042

The numbers for gun "defensive" uses are difficult to obtain. If the young hoodlums were forcibly attacking this man, they should not be counted as victims of accidents: "Westfall told police he was awakened by his doorbell at 12:45 a.m., and was armed with a .32-caliber handgun when he answered the door. When he opened the door slightly, the intruders forced it open, breaking a security chain and knocking Westfall down, according to an arrest affidavit." They rang his doorbell, and tried to force their way in... Let me ask you what you would have done if faced with the same situation? I betcha it wouldn't have been to call the police... You wouldn't have had time..... . . . . PS: Is anyone else having as incredibly difficult a time posting on SI as I am?? I'm almost ready to, heaven forbid, lurk over on Raging BS... <gasp!>