On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:02:21 -0700, the infamous Mark & Juanita
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On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:26:50 -0500, the infamous Upscale
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Everybody keeps mentioning how criminals will go to knives if guns are
not available and that comment also shows the flaws in the gun
ownership argument. Knives have and always have had a number of uses.
Guns on the other hand are designed for one purpose only and that's to
kill or injure. Maybe a few might take up guns for hunting or target
practice, but that doesn't take away from what guns are designed to
do.

Go look at stats. Defensive use of weapons numbers about two million
per year. You might be able to dispute the total number, but the fact
remains, millions of people are safer because they are armed. NONE of
these people do harm to others unless attacked, either. Look it up.
And please do more research on your position. Explore the many books
out there which will give you both sides. It will amaze you. (It sure
did me.)

Couple of recent examples:

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/19365762/detail.html

Excellent. How do you like the way the TV station described the
self-defense act? "...and he started shooting.", as if he were one of
the perps.


http://forthardknox.com/2009/12/10/c...ot-be-charged-
for-fatally-shooting-home-intruder/

Good for her!


Listening to the 911 call is sobering in several ways. In the first
place, contrary to many gun-fearing gun control advocates, this illustrates
the fact that gun owners aren't blood-thirsty rednecks just waiting for a
chance to unload on some hapless petty criminal. Secondly, is the real-life
object lesson of the adage "when seconds count, the police are only minutes
away".

Exactly. I listened to 11 minutes of the tape and they still hadn't
arrived. That's precisely why the public needs to have access to arms.


There is no telling what this drug addict would have done had she
been unarmed.

She likely would have been beaten and raped at the minimum. He sounded
awfully violent and angry.


About the same time as this event, an episode on one of the
cable channels (Discover, TLC, ...) aired that related the story of a young
woman killed by a drug addict who talked himself into her home and brutally
killed her using a clothes iron until the handle shattered in his hands.
All for the tips she had gotten that evening so he could buy another hit.

Humans are capable of anything. In this case, it's really sad.

--
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
-- Marcel Proust