"Pete C." > wrote in message
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> 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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>> > > sf wrote:
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>> > >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:25:49 -0700 (PDT), Robert Miles
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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?
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>> > >> > 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?
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>> > >> Better watch out. Logic is raising its ugly head and the gun nuts
>> > >> don't like it when that happens.
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>> > > 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.
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>> > If Americans accept ~20,000 gun deaths per annum as an acceptable price
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>> > 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.
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> Criminals killing other criminals is always a good thing.
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>> So why do you need a gun?
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> Recreation and safety,

So you are in the drug trade?

>and of course exercising my constitutional right.

Only if you use muzzle-loaders!
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