To: Shoot1st who wrote (5683 ) 3/2/2001 5:39:29 PM From: TH Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 59480 Shootie, Thanks. I may get the chance someday, but I'm not planning on any kids right now. As for Black Talons, er I can get em. I know they don't make em anymore, but it would not be too hard. Is it illegal to have them in your gun? I don't want to do anything illegal. It just policy, as I don't believe you ever give the powers that be a reason to be able to mess with you. I will talk to my buddies dad. I am sure he will have some bullet that has an 85% stop percentage to recommend. I understand exactly how you feel about responding to a person that tried to hurt your family. I had very similar feeling with a girl I spent many years with, and at one point planned to marry. Once I almost lost control of myself I was so angry with how someone treated her. Had I been there during the incident I would have done something I most certainly would have later regretted. As for the 20 years and then they become an equal. Well, I can't say firsthand. I did know this dood who was sort of a surrogate father to me for a period of time. He was full of little saying that have stuck with me for a long time. Every year I get older I realize how right he was about so many things, and how the meaning of some of the things he told me has changed. Anyway, one of the things he said was that he worried about his boys everyday for 18 years, but he feels he will worry about his girls until his last breath. Seems like there could be many reasons for this, but like I said I don't know from experience. I would guess if you give those kids the proper tools they will find a way to take care of themselves, and there has got to be a good bit of piece of mind in that for you. My dad was not a real nice person, still I have to respect that he taught some pretty clear lessons on being self-sufficent. He favorite saying was, "you can have ANYTHING you want son....as long as you can pay for it". Kids seem to be a lot like their parents, and that is one of my greatest fears, as it applies to me and for any kids I might have. HAGO TH