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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (117814)	3/12/2008 5:31:21 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

A gun is a tool...no better or worse than any other. Why are you so down on guns....How do we deal with knives, axes, shovels and other implements used to kill people?? Are you allowed to own a firearm? J.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (117814)	3/12/2008 5:56:49 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

When I was young, I lived alone on a ranch 25 miles from town. An International Mining company with a progressive new policy of equal opportunity for women opened up near me and I got a job with them. 4 women applied and the local manager was forced to hire them against the objections of nearly all the male miners, who were full of superstitions about accidents resulting when women were present. I decided to car pool with the women, who were all babes, much too good for me but they were very nice to me anyway. The first day on the job, one of the cow pokes pulled me aside and said there were two things he couldn't tolerate on that mine. One of them was women and the other was mop headed boys (meaning to insult me of course, I've never been fond of store bought short hair cuts). Then a 'friend' told me that a group of the miners were planning to take me behind a tree and whoop my ass. I hadn't really thought things through until then but as is my nature even today, I had to go and tell the women I would guarantee them a ride, as long as they wanted to work at that mine. I don't see a need to own a gun these days but back then I was known to be well heeled and I had a good watch dog. Everybody who knew me then, knew I was not one to back down from threats. I never, missed a nights sleep while living at that ranch. Eventually, everyone at the mine decided to get along and the issue was forgotten. I understand you've always lived a sheltered life in the city, and have internalized extreme left wing dogma as sacred, but you really don't have a clue what life is like for real people. You are way out of the loop on this gun control stuff.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (117814)	3/13/2008 8:50:44 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

Ah you're distinguishing serial vs mass murderers - like the occasional school shooters. Such mass murders are pretty rare. Banning guns, even apart from the constitutional problem, would be going overboard as a way of responding to mass murders. Furthermore its effectively impossible to disarm American society, which is what you'd have to do to make "gun control" effective. I'll relate a story to you told to me by my first wife. She was once driving at night to visit a sister in Va Beach. She stopped at a gas station / convenience store and noticed a guy looking at her while there. After she left and was driving through a rural area, the guy she'd seen followed her and tried to force her off the road. She happened to have a small handgun and she turned on the light inside her car, let the guy pull along beside her and pointed it at him mouthing a threat. When the guy saw the gun pointed at him, he slammed on his brakes, she drove on and never saw the guy again. Now why would you want to deny people the right to protect themselves in this way?