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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (11035)	4/11/2001 11:02:12 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 82486

If it's unloaded, in a locked cabinet, it's unlikely to be of immediate use, unless you're seriously expecting a warning from the attacker... Or would you keep it by the bedside? Where I would keep it would depend on the reason I felt I might need it and my situation (any small kids in the house ect.) There are a lot of sucessfull cases of self defense with firearms every year in the US. Yep. Target practice with an Uzi must be exciting. It would be. But your post didn't limit the discussion to uzis. Your statement was "general gun ownership" then you qualified your objection by saying that you where not against guns that where "Kept in secure, regulated, licensed clubs, used for target shooting. Transported to other registered, licensed, regulated and inspected venues only, for competition or variety purposes, in secure, registered vehicles at times pre-arranged with police etc." If you want to collect automatic weapons, and keep them in your own house to gloat over in private, I'd say you're probably not a fit and proper person to be allowed them. Or indeed anything more dangerous than a butter knife... 1 - Again you didn't limit the discussion to automatic weapons but rather any gun that wasn't tightly controled. 2 - I disagree with your opinion even when you do limit it to automatic weapons. Not everyone that might want to collect automatic weapons is a dangerous nutcase. I'd go as far as saying there is no reason to think that any particular person with a desire of such a gun collection is any crazier then the average person. Tim