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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (303140)	1/10/2011 7:03:49 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 306849

Wow! We're almost the world's first fully armed country, with a gun for every man, woman and child! I've felt both ways on the issue of gun ownership. I inherited a bunch of guns from my father. My junkie brother sold most of them, and I ended up with a .22 pistol. I sold the pistol after a cuckolded (by me) boyfriend started punching me in the face in my own bathtub, while the girl in question screamed. I had soap all over my face and was completely helpless. Finally, he stopped and we worked it out over coffee, the three of us. If he'd been a little earlier, I'd have been in bed, grabbed the pistol in my nightstand and just shot him. I realized that the gun hadn't been necessary, and was probably never necessary. So, I sold it. Lately, I've been re-acquiring a small collection of weapons, anticipating the breakdown of American society. I've got a .32 backup automatic, small and easily concealed. I've got a sawed off pump 12 ga. shotgun. Both unregistered, so as to be secret. I still need a large caliber pistol and a scoped deer rifle and I'll have all the bases covered. I don't want Jose' to be the guy with a gun while I face him down with a kitchen knife. Time to accept reality and get strapped.

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (303140)	1/10/2011 10:14:59 AM
From: The Reaper	Respond to of 306849

GB, we should outlaw stupid parents. There are countless devices that make firearms safe at home. As far as suicide in adolescents using firearms, if it wasn't guns it would be kitchen knives. Making guns illegal will not prevent teenage suicide. I can see you're a compassionate person. Kids killed with firearms is a tragedy but personally I don't think that making guns illegal is the answer.

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (303140)	1/10/2011 10:54:50 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

GB, the problem is that an armed citizenry is a minimal requirement to hold back tyranny for at least 200 years or so. unfortunately, an armed apathetic citizenry gets fooled into tyranny, but at least it takes time and the tyrants have to work at it. ask russia's 60 million murdered by the state feel about anti-gun laws. ask the jews if they became more safe once hitler took guns from their neighborhoods. ask europe during the middle ages when their brides to be were "had" by the local thug enforcer before they could get married (i recall this as being factual from several sources and i believe there is a name for it, but i can't seem to google it right now). ask mao's chinese population how being unarmed "saved their kids" when 60-80 million of them died. after looking at a map of countries invaded by hitler, ask the swiss if guns saved their children - especially the jewish people in switzerland. of course, i could go on and on throughout history - but that's just it. we have to know history and not rely on our the tyrant manipulated feelings. "come here little child, look at this puppy in my truck. now just get on in and you can pet it." we have to be more sophisticated than that. oh, and lock up your firearms and train your children to respect them.