"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:35:08 -0700, Rudy Canoza
wrote:

On 7/17/2015 9:20 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:08:40 -0700, Rudy Canoza
wrote:

On 7/17/2015 7:08 AM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 08:51:34 -0400, Stormin Mormon
wrote:

On 7/16/2015 6:53 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...d-robbery.html



I guess we ought to ask how 13 and 14 year old boys
in Philadelphia managed to get hold of a pistol?

Jeez, Chris, you should know that. Thanks to the NRA, anybody
can get
one, anytime, anywhere.

It never occurred to me even to try to obtain a gun when I was 13
and
14. Of course, I was brought up to obey the law and eschew
violence.

I owned my first rifle at age 11; my fifth Sharpshooter bar by 14;
and
had bagged at least a hundred ducks, rabbits, pheasants, and
squirrels
by 13.

I was taken shooting as a boy, but I didn't own any guns myself, and
certainly never sought to obtain a handgun.

But I was brought up to obey the law, too. And the culture that
surrounded guns, the one in which I grew up, was about hunting and
target shooting.

Thanks to the evolution of gun culture, it's now about killing
people.

I have two handguns locked in a gun safe. It never occurred to me
to
take one out and murder a man walking his dog at night.

Some cultures are more predisposed to violent crime than others.

True, but the formerly mainstream hunting and target shooting gun
culture has evolved into one that is mostly about fantasies about
killing people. Take a look at the covers of _American Rifleman_
these
days. They look like the old covers of _Soldier of Fortune_.

--
Ed Huntress

Have you forgotten about Redskins and Nazis?