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In git.announce sol <solomon@angband.org> alleged:

-> And believe it or not, a huge number of grown men don't use guns.  They
-> don't consider them to be "tools."  Tools to do what?  Kill?  That's all
-> that guns are used for.  That's all they're designed for.  I'd rather be
-> the type of grown man who doesn't always have an implement of death
-> around at all times.  

Fine.  I don't believe anyone was discussing forcing you to possess
a firearm of any kind.

->> Further, just in case the draft is reinstated at some time in the future
->> and my boy is involved, I definitely want him to be as experienced with
->> weapons as he can be.

-> I would rather that my son be in college during a draft.  

Sometimes it doesn't work out that way.  I wish there was peace on
earth and good will among men, but it just doesn't seem to work out
that way.

->> My son was 3 when I taught him to use a computer.  Why on earth does a
->> child that young need one of those?

-> 3 might be a bit young for a computer, but probably not.  Depends what
-> you're teaching him on it.  A computer can teach a child many many
-> wonderful things.  

-> A gun teaches a child how to kill.  

Actually, TV or a computer and something like Quake is much better for
actually teaching a child to kill.  I got over gratuitous killing around
the age of six, when I randomly shot a toad with a BB gun.  Watching it
die, I felt great sadness at the stupidity of it.  That is not to say
I don't believe in hunting (I do - I believe it is more honest than
thinking they grow meat on those white trays at Kroger) or the killing
of pests such as rats, but killing with no real purpose is definitely
wrong.  They don't teach you that in Quake or in many of the most
popular movies.

-- 
John Cronin