Mortimer Schnerd wrote:


I've got 9 rifles including all the socially incorrect ones: AR-15,
AKS, SKS, Mini-14 "assault rifles", a "sniper rifle" (Remington 700
BDL), a couple of full sized battle rifles (Mauser and Lee-Enfield),
plus a smattering of other types. Of course, I neither assault nor
do I snipe.

I own 2 twelve gauge shotguns.

I own 5 pistols of varying calibers.

I have never shot anyone nor even pointed a gun at another person. I
have had my life saved twice by my weapons over the years. Just the
fact that I had one deescalated the situation to nonviolence.

Is my situation typical? I have no idea. I don't know what my
neighbors might have. They don't have a clue what I have.



I have a theory about guns I call "The Porpoise Problem."

No one doubts that the porpoise is a swell friend of mankind. This is based,
partly, on the fact that since man has been going down to the sea in ships,
a passing porpoise has towed a hapless sailor to the nearest land. Countless
similar tales of porpoise rescue have been recorded in the annals of
seafaring. Hence the notion: "the porpoise is your friend."

We never hear about the cases where the porpoise towed the unfortunate bloke
farther out to sea!

So it is with guns. We hear, often in 144-point type, about the horrors
involving the misuse of firearms. But we seldom hear about the problems
prevented or the lives saved.