graham wrote:
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> "spamtrap1888" > wrote in message
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> On Jul 26, 12:04 pm, "graham" > wrote:
> > "Pete C." > wrote in message
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> > .com...
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> > > sf wrote:
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> > >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:25:49 -0700 (PDT), Robert Miles
> > >> > wrote:
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> > >> > How many of the other 80% would have been hit by stray bullets,
> > >> > possibly after they had gone through the original shooter?
> >
> > >> > How many of the 20% would know when to stop shooting, rather than
> > >> > starting to shoot at each other, and causing even more stray bullets?
> >
> > >> Better watch out. Logic is raising its ugly head and the gun nuts
> > >> don't like it when that happens.
> >
> > > Logic has nothing to do with any of the absurd babble coming from the
> > > anti-gun crowd, it's all emotion based on lack of firearm knowledge.
> > > It's rather akin to someone who has never even sat in an automobile
> > > trying to comment on the operation of one.
> >
> > If Americans accept ~20,000 gun deaths per annum as an acceptable price
> > for
> > their right to bear arms, who are we to judge?
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> Homicides are down to 11,500 a year, and most of those are by-product
> of the illegal drug trade. I neither buy drugs nor sell them, nor do I
> take them, so I don't feel responsible for drug industry deaths.

Criminals killing other criminals is always a good thing.

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> So why do you need a gun?

Recreation and safety, and of course exercising my constitutional right.

For those who think my constitutional right should be infringed because
my hobbies make you nervous, how about we require an expensive license,
class and background check for you to be able to exercise your first
amendment rights to more than 10 persons at a time? How about we require
you to exercise that free speech with only one person allowed in the
room at a time?