>At 09:13 PM 1/27/00 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
>>Desert Eagle Action Express .50
>
>(too unreliable; get a casull .454 if you like big bores)
Neither one is an adequate combat pistol. Both have far too
much kick to be useful in close quarter combat--your followup shot
takes too long.
>
>> Cryptography alone probably isn't a sufficient solution. Any ideas?
>
>Yah right, Jim. Soap box, ballot, cartridge box. Body bag.
>By the time its Flying Lead Time, guess who wins? A buncha
>sedentary homeowners with their toys or a squad of trained young
>male military sociopaths who can pick off a babe in mom's arms
>at 500 yds? They don't line up in red coats any more.
Young and exuberance will never take the place of experience,
skill, and bloody minded treachery. Damn few of those "young male
military sociopaths" can hit reliably at 500 yards, they just don't
train (most of) them like that any more.
As well, there are plenty of ex-military out here who aren't
exactly fond of the direction things are going, and they've kept up
and increased their aim by hunting.
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If the courts started interpreting the Second Amendment the way they interpret
the First, we'd have a right to bear nuclear arms by now.--Ann Coulter
