On 1 Jun 2003 at 14:40, Jan Coffey wrote: > --- Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If someone facing me pulls out a knife, unless they're trained with > > it, it's more dangerous to them than to me. A gun is a different > > story - any idiot can be dangerous with a gun. > > That isn't the same for all. A 100 pound woman when confronted by a > 150 pound man with a knife is in quite a lot of danger...unless she is > packing.
I didn't say that. I said ME. I've been trained to use a knife against an incompetent wielder. I'm all in favour of compulsory self- defence training. > The idiots can still get knives unless you want to take those away as > well, and some big lug of an idiot (not making any association between > large stature people and idiots) will rape and murder with nail > clippers, or bare hands. Yep. Having a gun just makes it a LOT easier. > I would prefer to know that every citizen had a gun than to be certain > that the criminals were the only ones with them. I'd prefer that my life not be on the line all the time. If UK guns laws were the same as US, I'd be dead now. In 1997. NO question at all about it. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
