> > Adam wrote: > > 5) There are times when a private citizen truly needs machine guns > to > > Don't you find it ironic that your example of "needing machine guns" > is to protect those same machine guns?
No, not at all. It was valuable business property, and he was the owner of the business. And they were after mostly non-NFA-type weapons, anyway. And to put a point on it all, he camped out on a cot in the back of his business because there was no way for the police to protect him based on rumors he had heard about a potential robbery. So the citizen had to protect his business himself. With military weapons. Another point I'd like to make is that, most likely, most of the people on this list have never really been on the shit side of the good/bad line, where you lived among drunks and heroin addicts and cheap hookers and crimes of all kinds. In fact, most of you have probably had fairly good lives being raised by at least one or more fairly good parents in at least passable neighborhoods and workable schools. And you probably spent more time in school and out. So you have most likely enjoyed, perhaps not la dolce vita, but reasonably good lives. And as such your view of the police has been to protect you rather than persecute and insult you, and 911 was your personal panic button rather than a joke. And the police probably greeted you with "Police, ma'am -- we got a call..." rather than "I swear to god, you motherfuckers make me come down here one more time and I will fucking wear your asses out!" To you, Officer Friendly wasn't a bent cop getting freebies from hookers and taking drug money to leave some corners open and shut the competitions' down. So just remember that your opinions are based on your life experiences and not the universal set of facts and realities that affect and control everything around you. If you think that gun control will work, then you've probably never lived in the shit, where you would laugh at such a notion. Bottom line: If you, acting entirely within the limits of the local laws of Washington, DC, went to any one of a hundred bad street corners in DC and said out loud, "I have $100 for every one of you who can prove to me beyond the shadow of a doubt that gun control is completely ineffective," you would be dead from multiple gunshot wounds within seconds. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis President Productivity Enhancement ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:257020 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
