From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Maybe for the untrained. However, I would much rather be shot than slashed
>by an experienced knife user. The damage done by a sharp knife, used
>effectively, is very tough to repair before the victim bleeds out. Surely,
a
>head shot is fatal, but don't count on your knife thug to just stab you;
>they could disembowel you very quickly
Statistically, a fraction one percent of people slashed or stabbed dies.
This was my only point. As I would rather be neither shot nor stabbed, I'm
proposing a Police central cutlery repository for all cutlery to be kept in
between meals.
On a more serious note, yes, I do know what's like, I was stabbed in 1984. I
can only assume he was inexperienced, because as most of you will have
realised by this point in the text, I survived. Along with the other 99%
plus, that do....
Relating back to the first point that I was trying to make in this
comparison, I don't believe Dunblaine would have happened, 'with a knife'.
Nor Hungerford. Saying that they could have occurred with cans of petrol, or
clubs, or, well, whatever? Is this what is described as debate? It sounds
more like carrying on arguments that were lost a long time ago, way beyond
their logical conclusion.
As for being a boxer who has taken too many punches, (as another
correspondent mused about me), well, I dunno, maybe. At least boxers usually
understand when the bell has rung for the final time, and the fight is over,
and that everyone has gone home and got on with their lives. Some of them
even realise how pathetic it sounds to drivel on about fights that you've
lost for years and years to come.
:o)
Paul
--
The fight is not over, because I am still a gun owner, and having one
part of my sport curtailed for no good reason means I will keep on
fighting to have it back. All I can say is that you obviously weren't
around in 1988 or weren't affected by it because you would realise that
we are a prime target for being shafted again - the longer we dwell on
the foolishness of the handgun ban the better.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men,
undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine.
and:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead.
Or the truly classic:
"Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve
to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the
sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever,
calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude,
and perseverance. Let us remember that 'if we suffer tamely
a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve
others in our doom.' It is a very serious consideration...
that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the
event." - Samuel Adams, 1771
Steve.
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