The middle east has a long history of violence between rival tribal fashions. Back in the old days, before gunpowder was discovered, the killing simple took other forms like:
beheading target practice on captives with bow and arrows and spears disembowelment with swords drawn and quartered with horses stoning hanging torture to death poling Would you prefer any of these to being blow to piece with car bombs or tortured and shot execution style by death squads. Below is an article regarding a mother, who was bound to a wheel chair, who helplessly watched as the family pit bull chewed here daughter's arms off. Luckily for the daughter, she was able to survive until police arrived using her arm stubs to fend off the pit bull from getting to her throat. Perhaps if this family had owned a hand gun this tragedy could have been prevented. Sometimes minutes count and there just isn't time to wait for police. Here is another article where a man was attacked by a pit bull while out on his morning walk, and a hand gun would have come in very handy; although, this man managed to survive without the gun. Many other people do not survive attacks by large dogs. http://www.click2houston.com/news/10889479/detail.html You never know what is going to happen, and it's wise to be prepared to protect oneself and the family against whatever threat might occur. A hand gun is especially useful when age begins to degrade our physical capabilities to protect ourself and family. My next door neighbor has a huge pit bull btw, as does my neighbor directly across the street. Regards, LelandJ Ed Leafe wrote: > On Feb 6, 2007, at 4:26 PM, john harvey wrote: > > >> I said society, not an anarchy. >> > > But guns were the critical component of creating the desired > behavior. Isn't the assumption that if everyone were to have a gun > that civilized behavior would inevitably follow, since everyone must > assume that everyone can defend themselves? Well, that's exactly the > situation in Iraq, and it resembles the Wild West of the gold rush > days. Wow, come to think of it, everyone there had guns, too, and > there was an awful lot of crime and violence. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
