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Article #1053Re: The 'Beauty' of Guns (was: Re: The Montreal massacre - this date, 1989....)
From: Orion
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 00:00
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D'Amboise Charles (damboisc@ERE.UMontreal.CA) wrote: : larry_soo@mindlink.bc.ca (larry soo) writes: : >ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) wrote: : >>Indeed. The "beauty" of a gun from the point of view of a terrorist or : >>madman is that hardly any preparation is required. You don't have to be : >>smart enough to figure out the quantities of ingredients required to make a : >>bomb, you don't have to take the time to assemble it, etc. You just pick it : >>up, and you're in business. : >Right...and you have to be within line-of-sight with your victim, : >somewhere in the immediate vicinity and willing to make a lot of noise : >which would reveal your position. : Don't you know about that little device for guns called a 'muffler' : (silencieux en francais...) : Shoot, and the gun makes a little, little noise, so you cannot wake up : anyone. Oh yeah...the little 'phhhft' noise the guns on TV make, right? Heh...sorry Charles, but the reality is quite different (I'll let someone else explain the physics involved; no time for a lengthy post right now). But I suppose this means that you think all gun owners have such devices? Along with night scopes, 'cop-killer' bullets, etc? Suuure we do...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 111b2d,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gid111b2d,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-Thread: 10ea42,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ea42,public X-Google-Thread: f7b9c,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7b9c,public X-Google-Thread: 100c8e,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gid100c8e,public X-Google-Thread: f504b,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gidf504b,public X-Google-Thread: 112f74,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f74,public X-Google-Thread: 114af9,1cce3fa1d2950587 X-Google-Attributes: gid114af9,public From: orion@unix.infoserve.net (Orion) Subject: Re: The 'Beauty' of Guns (was: Re: The Montreal massacre - this date, 1989....) Date: 1995/12/16 Message-ID: <4atat3$cgi@news.infoserve.net> X-Deja-AN: 122010821 distribution: world references: <DJ6n9B.6GF@freenet.carleton.ca> <4a73sh$8hk@gold.interlog.com> <4abbe9$q6v@sulla.cyberstore.ca> <4ag3lr$21t@gold.interlog.com> <4ahedu$8mb@news.infoserve.net> <4aj5rr$9i0@gold.interlog.com> <DJII44.Kwr@freenet.carleton.ca> <4aohdo$pbu@fountai followup-to: mtl.general,qc.general,can.general,ab.general,bc.general,ns.general,nf.general,nb.general newsgroups: mtl.general,qc.general,can.general,ab.general,bc.general,ns.general,nf.general,nb.general