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Koroush Ghazi <King_of_Kings@bigpond.com> wrote:
>How can some disabled people use a gun? Anyhow, surely any regulatory system
>would see some obvious exceptions. However, a single 110-pound woman can use:
>mace, a bat, a knife, a heavy pan, etc. If there are multiple intruders it is
>highly unlikely that she could shoot or scare them all off, and one would
>overpower her and now have a gun to boot. Think about how much space there is in
>a typical room. Couldn't you cover that and overpower a woman?
>
>Any case, the less able don't post on these newsgroups. It's the more able but
>less intellectually-gifted who are actively arguing for gun ownership. The

It's funny you follow that brilliant logic with this line.

A weaker person cannot swing as bat as hard, nor as quickly.  A person
that makes a living using a bat to take money from others will have
absolutely no problem overpowering her, wacking her a good one on the head
for even trying, and then leaving with the goods.   If no one finds her
quickly, she'll die.  A weak, untrained person with a knife has even lower
chances of success.  But a weak person with basic gun skills will have no
problem presenting a substantial threat to the robber.   If there are two
robbers, the gun is the only way she could combat both from the safety of
a doorway or a corner.  

>Truth of the matter is guns kill more easily than any other weapon. Aside from
>the instant chance of death, bullets always penetrate the skin, meaning more
>chance of blood loss and slow death. Then there's the recovery of a bullet from
>the body, etc. Knives and bats don't have quite the same complications.

Knives open up blood vessels and seal none of them, which is not true for
the bullet.  A sword pretty much guarantees death.  Many survive gun shots
to the chest.  
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