Y'all do realize that guns *don't* make you invincible. At point blank range, your odds are just as likely that (if the person that you're pointing at is a trained fighter) you'll be disarmed, and probably lose function of a wrist or arm.
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:58 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Gun Control, run from this thread now :) Two guys held up my cousin's jewelry store in Richmond. Too bad for those guys, they didn't know that my cousin and his brothers, the Baker boys, were all armed to the teeth. Both of the those guys were carried out in body bags, and the Governor gave my cousins a medal. You're damn right I would own a gun. On 3/15/07, Dana wrote: > > Sounds like Capitol Hill. As I understand it, the argument is usually that > if they take the gun away from you you're in much worse shape because you've > escalated the situation. I used to drive a cab out of Prince George's > county, and I was driving people like that around. Most of those kids > selling drugs don't see much hope for the future otherwise, but they only > shoot each other. It's stray bullets, robbers and burglars that are the real > danger imho. > > On the other hand I lived in Maryland when I was in DC, and though some > of those neighborhoods were pretty bad and even drug markets, nobody was > getting *shot* outside my door. I did have to testify in two completely > different murder trials though. One of them was for a friend of mine who > shot a ex-roommate who absolutely refused to be an ex and kept coming back > to the house and beating up an old man who lived there. My friend did seven > years out of twenty for killing him. Was it a good idea to have that gun? > > I have to say that this went on for several months, the police were called > many times and they were totally inept. But my advice at the time was look, > this guy is an asshole. Your landlord is an asshole. Those two guys deserve > each other. This house is not worth the drama. ::sigh:: > > Oh and a co-worker of mine was shot at his second job. He died. This was > in *Bethesda* > > You tell me. Would you have a gun? > > -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230277 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
