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[tim elliott]

 You're absolutely right Colin, and that doesn't even take into account the
number
of people here that leave their guns (why would you even need more than 1
anyway) laying
around where their little children can find them - and then they're loaded.
It seems to
happen a lot here. People forget (or don't know) that "the right to bear
arms" was given at
a time when the U.S. didn't have a standing army, and needed a militia made
up of the general
population to protect the country from Indians, the British, and the French,
etc.
tim  8>)...


On 11/17/06, Colin Allen <colinjallen at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> No, I just find the idea of allowing the public to carry guns utterly
> absurd.  Given the incidents of road rage, supermarket rage, parking rage,
> bus queue rage etc, the idea that a large percentage of people are calm and
> considered enough to be trusted carrying a gun is absolutely ludicrous.
>
> Given your criteria for being allowed to carry a gun, that would enable
> all non-violent criminals to carry guns, as well as they typical boozed up
> lager lout.  I am sure that you would not want to live with the consequences
> of that;).
>
> Colin
>
> M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> wrote:
> Colin Allen writes:
>
> > One might argue that anyone wishing to carry a concealed handgun has
> > excluded themselves from being permitted to do so by reason of mental
> > instability.
>
> You're just worried by that "First we shoot all the lawyers..." quip.
>
> FoFP
>



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