I have personally used a pistol in self-defense twice. Once to prevent a rape, and once to prevent a break in of my home where I and my wife were sleeping. This was before I was in the Army. Now I come from a gun family and have been around them my whole life. I have never taken a gun safety course, unless you count military ranges, and I don't.
I haven't ever had to discharge a weapon outside of combat, having the weapon, and showing intent to use the weapon was enough to diffuse the situation in both cases. -----Original Message----- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:25 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: VA Massacre & Gun Control Criminals should know that if they point a gun at someone, there'll be 20 guns points back at them. One comment I would like to make concerning this concept. How many times in a given persons life are they likely to face an armed criminal. Contrast this with how many times in a persons life where they may be faced with an emotionally charged situation where having instant access to a highly proficient killing device would be a very BAD idea. If you reply that 'training' would take care of this, how would that training be applied? It sure as hell better be a lot more effective then the training that allows almost anybody to be put in control of multi-thousand pound killing machines on the roads. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232937 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
