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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (127321)	4/20/2011 5:03:46 PM
From: longnshort	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Gas prices are not high. If they were, it would be on TV, as during the Bush years. There are no wars right now. If there were, the count of the dead would be on TV every morning. There is no problem with the economy. If there was, it would be on the news everyday. There were no tornadoes that wiped out towns in NC, nor any fires in Texas. If there was, the president would be there, and not fund raising. That could make him a racist, if he did not care. There is no inflation or unemployment. TV would tell us if the president was a worthless POS, and did not care. I imagine the list could go on a lot farther...... h/t locogringo

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (127321)	4/20/2011 5:40:35 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

A 6 year old boy brought a gun to Kindergarten yesterday in Houston. The story is, the gun fell out of his pants, went off and one bullet wounded him and two classmates. None were seriously hurt. Some observations: 1. If the gun came from his home, the parents should be flayed and put into stocks. My guess is that the kid wanted to show off the gun and didn't mean to harm anyone. 2. The gun went off when it fell. I know it happens all the time on television, but it rarely happens in real life. An average or even a bit less than average handgun made in most industrial countries simple does not go off when they fall. Just about the only way to make them go off is to pull the trigger. I own well over 100 guns and have never known anyone who has dropped a gun and had it fire. Or beaten it with a sledgehammer and had it fire. This is even more unlikely with a six year old, as the gun doesn't have that far to fall. Revolvers have a shield. Pulling the trigger makes the shield go down and allows the revolvers hammer to make contact with the round in the chamber. Semi automatics have multiple safeties. A Colt automatic, for instance, must have a side safety moved into firing position and then, a hand must be on the weapon to depress a grip safety, or the hammer will not fall. That is why soldiers carry the Colt "cocked and locked," which sounds dangerous, but in reality is not. So, a gun just falling and firing is very unlikely unless it is either an old or a very cheap gun that has had all the safeties taken off before the kid brought it to school. 3. Some people keep home defense guns locked up, which all burglars and rapists recommend highly. You will never get them unlocked in time. Some buy locks for the guns themselves, which means you have to remember the combination when some PCP freak is busting through your door. Piece of cake. <G> I have mentioned many times that I use shotguns for home defense. But I don't have a kid in the house. When I have lived with kids in the house, I used a Hechler and Koch P7 for home defense. This pistol has the somewhat sexy name "Squeeze Cock". You have to squeeze the cocking grip on the front of the pistol before it will fire. Unlike the squeezer on the back of the Colt, this requires an adult grip. It is not as tough as my "Captains of Crush" hand grippers, but a kid under 12 or so simply cannot do it. I'm waiting to hear more details on this story. It is a wee bit fishy in the way it's been told, so far. I don't think anyone is lying, but I think they are using preliminary information.