graham wrote:
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> "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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> >> > .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?
> >>
> >> 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,
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> So you are in the drug trade?

No, I'm not in the drug trade as most anti-gun folks seem to be. Pretty
sad how they want to take away my constitutional rights, but they think
it's ok for them to use illegal drugs. Unlike them, I've never used any
illegal drugs in my entire life. Safe relaxing time at the shooting
range or out hunting is my drug of choice, well, that and good coffee.

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> >and of course exercising my constitutional right.
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> Only if you use muzzle-loaders!

There were far more arms than muzzleloaders available when the second
amendment was written and there were *no* restrictions placed on the
type of arms the citizens could have. It is abundantly clear that this
was the intention, not an oversight.