On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:49:29 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:

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_.

But Ed, if one wants to "go hunting" one has to go out in the rain and
snow and it can be damned uncomfortable. Must better to sit home and
dream about how you are a big, bad, ass.
--
cheers,

John B.