----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Brooklyn Dad Facing Jail for Shooting Intruder
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:24:56AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote: > > > You have to understand the enviromental idiom concerning weapons over > > here. Gun ownership is common. So common in fact that every loon already > > has one, and they dont have to get a permit to do so. All that is required > > is a criminal background check. This law in Brooklyn is very unusual in > > This really isn't encouraging me to come to the states, you do realise this. > ;-) But even so, if they think the worst they'll get is a $100 fine, I don't > think that would improve things especially. Well......... there are something on the order of 83,000,000 gun owners in the US, and hardly any of them shot anybody last week/month/year. The fact that of all the Americans you have known, hardly any of them have died from gunshot wounds, and that should tell you something about the actual state of things here. I rarely see a firearm, and if I do its usually on the hip of a policeman, and rarely a friend will show me a new gun he has recently bought. I ***never*** see armed soldiers. Contrary to the rumors circling the globe, US citizens dont run around waving their guns in the air or shooting beer bottles off handy fence rails. People are much more discrete than that. (And I'm in Texas in case you dont recall) To see Americans shooting guns you pretty much have to go to a shooting range. > > > Of course everyone knows that people in New York are all commies.<G> > > Ah, but proper pinko ones, or the new slightly puce ones? ') Pick a color.......its humor, so you have to participate a bit. <G> xponent Longhair, Shorthair, What The Hells The Difference Once The Heads Blown Off Maru rob Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns It calls me on and on across the universe _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
