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

To: scoobypax who wrote (1960)	10/10/2000 11:11:28 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 10042

I could see children handling weapons this way if they'd never been around them, but these were adult men. Both times it was groups of 2-4 people who where obviously recent immigrants, sharing a single weapon. I draw no conclusions from this other than I see people in third world countries shoot their AK-47's in the air in celebration. In immigrant communities near LA and in the Bay Area this is a very common problem - the discharge of weapons for recreational noise-making value - especially on holidays. I stopped for gas in East LA and I could hear full automatic fire coming from nearby one Friday night. Now I know there are drunken rednecks out shooting things like road signs (I see holes from shot and bullets), so I think it comes from either complete ignorance or a disregard for the consequences of one's actions, or both. Either way, if I'm hit by a stray round, I really don't care about WHY the person acted like an idiot, or what race or country of origin that idiot was. No matter who did it, I still have the stray round in me. The point is that a lot of people are out there with guns that probably have no business owning them. Do I support a ban? No. But the kind of stuff that scared me off the range has got to send up a red flag for anyone who understands the intrinsically dangerous nature of firearms.