On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:37 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/06/2011 3:14 PM, frank theriault wrote: >> > >> >> Mind you, the kid was probably safe as can be, with a loaded 12 gauge >> stowed beneath the cash register, and I bet he knew how to use it! > > Depends on if he could get to his shotgun faster than the guy who pulls a > pistol out of his jacket can pull the trigger. > The concept that carrying a gun on your person or having one at arms reach > makes you safer is one of those false leaps of logic that always astounds > me.
Yeah, I was being a bit facetious there. Don't really want to extend this thread any more, or get into a firearm flamewar, but personally, I think carrying a gun or keeping them in one's house for "protection" ~increases~ one's chance of being harmed by guns - by either your own gun or a bad-guy's. Don't really want to say much more than that, and if anyone chooses to differ with me or argue the point, please do it off-list so as not to bother other nice Pentaxians. ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
