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Skriven 2011-03-14 18:55:13 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 15075 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Fun, fun, fun...
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10 Mar 11 16:22, Robert Bashe wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> Nancy once told me about her ex-boyfriend in San Francisco who was a
 RW>> gun nut. She knew nothing and he allowed her to shoot after some
 RW>> instruction, keeping and eye on her. She turned the pistol up so
 RW>> that she could look down the barrel and he was beside himself
 RW>> shouting for her to put it down.

 RB> Why? All she wanted to do was to see if a bullet was in the chamber
 RB> ;-))

You can't see them in a pistol.

 RB> I still remember the time I let one of my nephews (around 20 at the
 RB> time) fire a .32 semiautomatic on our family farm in Texas. He held
 RB> it with his thumb _behind_ the slide, real "kewl" -

Been there and saw the damage. Cold .45 Government Model. How he got the
gun to fire is beyond me, as it has a grip safety.

 RB>  and I stopped him immediately, telling him that he'd break his thumb
 RB> if he pulled the trigger. Luckily, it was the kind of gun that you
 RB> not only have to switch off the safety, but also hold the grip
 RB> tightly, pressing the extra safety in the grip in, to be able to fire
 RB> the pistol. He then switched his grip, held the pistol properly, and
 RB> fired several rounds.

One of my dad's friends came home from WW2 with a German pistol known as a
'broomhandle'...It was capable of single or full auto fire. I was allowed
to shoot it, but was told not to shoot more than one time. (a joke on me)
Little did I (7 years old) know it was set on full auto. The guy was
pissed that I emptied the clip, but I'll bet he was laughing on the
inside...

 RB>>> But unfortunately, I also see that even gun-knowledgeable people
 RB>>> occasionally go nuts and start shooting in all directions.

 RW>> I think that is a conspiracy of the anti-gun nuts.

 RB> If it didn't happen so often I'd tend to agree. Unfortunately, it
 RB> does.

I see a conspired pattern in the shootings. They happen at the right time
for the antees to make yet another stupid appeal for anti-gun-laws.

 RB>>> That's when I start wishing the most deadly things available to the
 RB>>> general public were knives and hammers.

 RW>> Those are just as dangerous.

 RB> You'd have a hard time killing 10-20 people with a hammer or a knife
 RB> without being stopped.

Only if there were no guns to stop you. A hammer would be even more deadly
than a gun, as it would be a silent killer. The knife is too, but everyone
else has a knife.

 RW>> The only way the police stop them is to shoot them. Saw that happen
 RW>> once when a deranged individual ran rampant in public, threatening
 RW>> to slice up anyone who got in his way. When the police intervened,
 RW>> he still wouldn't put the knife down, so they shot him, dead.

 RB> Use a Taser.

They only use those on un-armed people.

 RB> They may be dangerous, but mostly they aren't deadly.

Not true. The police in San Diego (I know) have killed quite a few people
with tasers.

 RB> And if the culprit doesn't have a gun to fire, there's no immediate
 RB> danger except to him- or herself.

The police don't look at it that way. San Diego police (San Antonio too)
have shot and killed people who had waved knives at them. If you don't
obey a direct order from a police officer, you take your life into your
own hands. They shot a San Diego NFL football player because he refused to
stop running away. He was no threat while running away from the shooter,
the cop was just too lazy to chase him.

                R\%/itt

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