🚀 go-pugleaf

Craig Dowell (cmd@eskimo.com) wrote:
: In article <4ihrvs$kg8@panix.com> glindahl@panix.com (glindahl) writes:
: >Steven L. Wilhite (SWilhite@dallas.ddddf.com) wrote:
: >: dk@crl.com (David A. Kaye) wrote:
: >
: >: >Steve Scott wrote the quoted material below:
: >
: >: >" Go get the statistics and you will find that you are wrong.  Beating
: >: >" deaths outnumber murder by firearms.
: >
: >: >But people who were shot to death are just as dead.  
: >
: >: May I put to just one word my thoughts on your profoundly insightful
: >: statement...    DUH...
: >
: >But his statement want' dumb at all!  It is the core of the argument - 
: >which is why should there be firearm fatalaties at all?  Who cares what 
: >percentage they represent?  There are too many guns in the U.S., they are 
: >too dangerous, and they should be outlawed!!  Let people punch each other 
: >to death -at least you can defend yourself from the attack!

NO, there are too many foolish people like you who should be deported
from the U.S!  Your thoughts should be outlawed!

NOW, if I really meant that, I'd be out of line, just as you were to
post paste your uninformed personal opinions without give the matter
any thought.

Old Colonel Colt was said to have made all folks the same size.  If you
will think just a little bit, you'll realize there are elderly, frail,
perhaps handicapped people who should have the right to go out in 
public without being afraid for their lives.

News being what it is, that is no longer very likely...everwhere you
look, you see violent abuse of the very folks who are unable to defend
themselves.

If you were (not implying!) a bully, thug, robber, or just a punk with
a dislike of society...if you wanted some "fun," some extra spending
cash, a nice car to "drive around" on a Friday night (and if you had
no money at all) where would you get this?  Would you pick on someone
who appeared frail, weak and unable to defend themselves, OR would
you pick on the Chuck Norris type?

Easy answer, huh.  It is the little folk who need to have the
protection.  Why did you assume in your remark that they can just
"punch each other to death.."?  Do you not have  any concern for 
those who 'may not' have trained for the Friday night kickboxing
tryouts?

The fellow who writes below, in response to your note, has done
some thinking.  Importantly, he realizes that predators have been
with us (humans) forever.  There will always be those who make
their living by preying off the weaker of the species.  Would you
just give them free rein to kill and rob and beat anyone of their
choice?  What if it were your wife?  Your mother?  

Still feel that way? 

I hope not.  Think on the broader subject of human nature.  Folks
should be permitted to take control of their own lives, make their
own decisions, and be responsible for those decisions.  I hope the
decisions are more completly thought out than yourse seemed to be.

Cavid

: That's right!  Take the weapons out of the hands of those women!  They can
: slap those abusive husbands into submission.  Yes, make the elderly fight
: those half-dozen 6'2" 240 pound predatory teens bent on a mugging or a
: robbery to a standstill with their fists.  

: Jeez, I suppose you think that if guns disappear, all disputes will be held
: according to Marquis of Queensberry rules.  I think it's far more likely that
: you'll find somebody laying a lead pipe upside your head from behind than 
: having them walk up to you and announce their intention to fight you for your
: wallet.

: Outlaw flint arrowheads and only outlaws will have flint arrowheads.  You
: are going to be taken advantage of by people who do so, no matter what rules
: you obey; because those people won't live by your rules.  There will always
: be people like that; always have.  Saying guns are bad and should be outlawed
: isn't going to do a damn thing about it.  

: -- Craig