> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Philip F. Lee > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:46 AM > To: Volokh, Eugene; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Good discussion of the advantages and > disadvantages of shotgunsvs. handguns for self-defense > > > Obviously, there are circumstances for which a handgun, a rifle, a > shotgun or even one of these firearms with high capacity > magazines are > preferred for self-defense.
> Most discussions I've seen assume a circumstance and argue for a > preferred weapon. Most self-defense circumstances (other than at > home) don't allow a choice to be made -- one chooses for a general > circumstance such as having a concealed firearm out in public. What you say here is true. However, all of those are wrong in that they come from those pundits with little or no experience in the real world of deadly violence. Real professionals who reasonable EXPECT to have to defend their lives and the lives of others almost always carry more than one type of weapon. A team of people with some variation of arms is even better. Having a single type of weapon and expecting it to serve in all instances is foolhardy at minimum, fatal at worst. Bruce L. Jones The Mojave Desert - The Geographic Center of Nowhere _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
