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In article <387k68$6hi@crl.crl.com>, cheyney@crl.com (Christopher S. Cheyney) writes:
> 
> Besides, who said having guns meant you were hunting or shooting
> people with them?  Has it become so politically incorrect to like
> going down to the range and expending a couple hundred rounds of
> your favorite caliber in your best handgun?

Well I'd like to buy a tank and shoot off a couple of rounds.  Why can't I?
I'd also like to buy a hand-held surface-to-air missle launcher and
"expend" a few rounds.  After all this stuff can be purchased very
inexpensively from our former Soviet Union adversaries. Why can't I?
Right to bear arms and all that 200+ year old stuff you know.  It is 
right-to-bear arms, isn't it.  It doesn't say just guns.  Then
why are automatic weapons, tanks, rocket launchers, portable nuclear
weapons, etc. CONTROLLED.

We lost our right-to-bear arms a long time ago.  Now we are having
problems dealing with the gun fanatics.  Any idiot who cries right
to bear arms should also support the right to have any "arm".  How
would it feel knowing some punk has an anti-aircraft weapon?

> Maybe it's just because you've become a complete psychotic that you
> can't think of using guns for anything except harm.  I can't think
> of another reason why you'd be so against mechanical objects and
> chemical processes that are so simple that the basis upon which
> they were developed has existed for about a half millenium.  Maybe
> it's because you mistrust some barbarian tendency inside you to go
> do harm to people and things who have never harmed you.

The vast majority of Handguns are designed to kill people.  Period.

> I don't know, I'm not an expert on mental disorders, but with signs
> of a mania like this, you should really go see a doctor.  See two,
> get a second opinion.  This obsession with controlling the lives
> of others is getting in the way of your judgement.

I guess you speak from personal experience.  After all, you have a 
gun fetish, obsession, craze, fascination and yes a MANIA.

> I hope this posting has made you incredibly angry, because within
> that anger, there's hope and opportunities:  hope that you will
> question your own beliefs and opportunities for you to exercise
> thought and reason.  And if it hasn't encouraged these things,
> I can only hope for very, very red ears.  :-)  *grin*

Hasn't made me angry.  I see no reason for insults.  Though I must
say that I doubt you are a product of a selective breeding program.