--- "d.brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snipped a lot> > > But I am also a father, and I do NOT want > schoolteachers armed to the > teeth. I want only rifles in peoples, home, stored > high with the > bolts removed and locked elsewhere. We'll have our > second amendment > guns... and home defense or sport or hunting. All > other types - > including Assault rifles and handguns, are simply > substitute penises > for really sad obsessive fellows.
<grimace> I must disagree with you here; I have been in the situation of waking to find an intruder standing in my bedroom doorway. Fortunately for me, I had practiced what to do in such a case, and lunging at him while snarling & brandishing a wicked-looking letter-opener sent him running. Fortunately for him, I didn't own a gun yet; but did he later attack some unprepared or unable woman, and rape when I might have stopped him then? If my car had 'died' when I was being rammed from behind and paced on either side, nothing short of having a loaded handgun (can't operate a rifle effectively inside a sedan) would have saved me from whatever those men were planning. (repeat thanks for that T-bird's toughness, and those who designed/built the V-8 that allowed me to outrace those pricks) The first incident took place just off-campus, the second on interstate highway just outside of Dallas, TX. I took safety and firing instruction from an Army officer before owning a gun, and practice ~ yearly under competent supervision. If someone again attempts to harm me (or anybody near me), I will not be defenseless. I do think assault/automatic weapons have no place in the civilian sphere, and I have no problems with waiting periods, background checks, or requirements to take safety/firing courses before being allowed to purchase a gun. I wouldn't even have a problem with a psych evaluation before purchase - although that still wouldn't eliminate those able to *act* sane, or the black market, but it would probably cut down on some of the crazies/emotionally immature. Deborah Harrell __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
