Spexxvet |
10-20-2006 12:39 PM |
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Originally Posted by MaggieL
Total bullshit story...which has already changed several times. The victim's nine-year-old brother was in the room; you'll have trouble convincing me he wasn't the triggerman.
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Does that change the point? Your fantasyland where only good, sensible, law-abiding, pacifist, dead-eye, safety conscious, folks with perfect judgement will have guns is a farce. Criminals will have guns and kill innocents. Children will get hold of guns and kill innocents. Legal gun owners will have accidents, and use poor judgement, and become criminal and kill innocents. Insane people will get guns and kill innocents. All this so that You can have your gun - but not use it unless.....well.... you won't say. Others have said that they would be able to accurately judge when a situation becomes life-threatening, and use their gun successfully to save their lives and/or the lives of their family. But they wouldn't shoot too soon, and kill an innocent. Sorry. That is BULLSHIT! Either you are prudent, and the aggressor gets the drop on you, or you're going to kill somebody that means you no harm. You can't be perfect all the time.
The only way to stop all this weapon related killing would be to remove handguns from the environment. When you say that some killing is good and cite drug dealer vs drug dealer, I maintain that this type of killing would probably continue. It seems to me that these folks would not blanch at stabbing or bludgeoning their victim.
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