> Spot on. "What firearm is "best" is an issue so dependent on personal > capacity, environment and the nature of the threat that the issue what > single firearm is best non est disputans. Gun rags and gun-counter > commandos revisit the subject eternally without fear of refutation. > For some people in some places facing some threats, shotguns may be > best. For others, perhaps handguns or carbines.
Which addresses a fundamental problem with most law and doubly so with gun control laws -- namely the one-size-fits-all myth (ask any woman about one-site-fits-all panty hose and at best you'll get a nasty stare). Every self-defense scenario is different and includes the elements of people, place, perpetrator and potential peril. Legislative attempts at defining who can own what kind of weapon and at what time leave someone, somewhere in danger (when I speak to various groups I often tell the story of Alice, a cop's daughter who was savagely raped by an addled ex though she went to buy a handgun that morning ... and encountered a 10 day 'cooling off' period). Thus shotguns are the ideal self-defense device for many people facing many different circumstances. Not me, today in my tiny town, but someone else as we speak is pointing a 12 gauge at someone else and telling them to back off. Yours in Liberty Guy Smith www.GunFacts.info _______________________________________________ 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.
