"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
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On 3/3/2013 3:02 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:

They're for killing people. That's who gets them -- people who are
going to kill, or threaten to kill, other people. That's what
they're
for, that's what they're all about, and that's why they're out
there.


Except for the millions and millions that are used for organized
sports and other very responsible uses.

And, they are far less lethal than originally designed, the Army's
changes ****ed that all up.

That doesn't matter.

They generate a conditioned fear response planted by the media, most
evident in urbanites with no actual counterbalancing experience with
them. So do chainsaws.

It's ironic that the most supposedly civilized environment induces the
most primitive fear and helplessness.