--- "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?
A friend of mine dating back to the first grade was at home alone one night (his father was a career Navy man, so he was away at sea a fair amount while my friend was growing up) when he heard someone attempting to break in. When the door opened, the intruder found himself facing my friend who was pointing a military-issue-type .45 automatic at him. The intruder left rather more hastily than he had entered, with no damage except perhaps to the state of his underwear.
-- Ronn! :)
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