Jan Coffey wrote:
>
> --- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > (And no, I'm not going to purchase a gun until I feel a lot more
> > comfortable around one than I am. And generally, the rattlers just
> > kinda park themselves in the road, so there's time to get the ammo out
> > of the separate locked box, load the gun, and go back out to do it in.
> > And I've heard that rattlesnake tastes like chicken.)
>
> That gun belongs on your hip fully loaded. You live in one of the SANE states
> that allows LAW ABIDING citizes to balance their own power with that of the
> criminal. Do you think that rapists and murdererd keep their amo locked in a
> seperat box?
I'm not taking the gun *with* me. Carrying a loaded gun while I'm
carrying small children isn't my idea of a Good Idea. I'm talking about
having it available to dispatch dangerous animals near my house. And
anything short of a poisonous snake, the dogs can probably take care of
(sometimes to my dismay -- you weren't around for the skunk saga, but
I'd be willing to give you the short version off-list if you asked).
I *do* have a couple of friends who *do* have guns with them a good deal
of the time, and on one occasion, one might have had his life saved by
having that gun with him. (At least, this is what he's told me, and
he's honest and not unduly paranoid about *that* sort of thing.) But
most of the people I know aren't packing, and there are so many places I
need to go that have signs on the door prohibiting firearms that I'm not
sure I *would* want to carry any time soon.
If I were further out from a major population center, I'd probably feel
differently, and take different actions, but I'm not about to try to
walk into, say, a fabric store in Austin with a loaded gun.
(I might break the rules at Luby's, though....)
Julia
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