On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:49:27 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:20:46 -0000, John Sparks wrote:
<snip> >> But I still >> believe that no guns is a desirable state of affairs. > Why does there seem to be simply the consentration upon "no guns" as > being the answer to preventing crime ? > Why not..... > no knives.... no clubs.... no swords.... no weapons of any kind ??? > Is that not exactly what every dictator through-out history has done ??? > (remove every weapon they could from the hands of the civilians) > Did removeing weapons from the civilians prevent crime ? > Or did it simply make it easier for that dictator to > maintain controll over the civilian population ? Where I live we keep guns handy in case they are needed for self-defense against creatures other than fellow humans. There is a four hundred pound male black bear and a female with two cubs that are frequently seen roaming around the neighborhood. They are very nice bears and they haven't threatened anybody so far. Nobody is in favor of shooting them as long as they don't attack anybody. Incidents of black bears attacking humans are rare unless someone should accidently wander between a mama bear and her cubs. The bears are very amusing and they are fun to watch. The only problems that the bears are causing is that they often destroy the wild-bird feeders to rob the birdseed, and we can't keep our garbage cans outside because the bears will smash them open and rummage through them and make a terrible mess. It is illegal to shoot a bear or a human when the creature is only damaging property and not causing any threat to human life. Neither myself nor my neighbors have any feelings of insecurity over the presence of the bears because almost all of us keep a very powerful firearm handy in case we should need to defend ourselves in the unlikely event of an attack. Unprovoked attacks by black bears can and do happen, but such incidents are rare. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
