On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Sandi wrote:
>
> Lena B Katz wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Sandi wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Lena B Katz wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In rec.food.cooking, Lena B Katz > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Not at all. So you're telling me you've got a better solution
> to
>>> twelve
>>>>>> year olds on motorcycles with assault rifles shooting your
> family?
>>>>>
>>>>> I have not yet found that my neighborhood twelve year olds ride
>>>>> motorcycles. Much less shoot guns. Much less assault rifles.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2. You're gonna care about laws when kids are shooting the
>>> neighborhood
>>>> with assault rifles? Get real.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You need to get real. 12 year old "kids" with "assault" rifles?
>>> Gimme a
>>> break.
>>
>> You want pictures? Just go google them. It hit the front page, and
> was
>> on TV. Try looking under Rwanda.
>> One of my friends lost quite a
>> few friends to kids
>> like that.
>
> This conversation started with an assault on a woman in the US...not in
> Rwanda. You need to try staying with the actual conversation instead of
> hijacking it.
Sorry. I'm bad about that.
> Pictures? Seen them and live them. I live in a third
> world country that has a major violence problem, an overabundance of
> automatic and semiautomatic weapons and is a receiving point for Mara
> Salvatruchas deported from the US. You do know who the Maras are don't
> you?
....googling (my knowledge of news in general is rather limited. no TV, no
Radio.) I see.
>You do know about the December bus massacre of women and children?
> the barbershop massacre a few days after that?
> the several hijackings
> of private vehicles in the weeks after the barbershop?
Perhaps I should think about adding another place onto the "OMG Is she
okay" list. (Honduras, if google's telling me straight).
>>> 16 or 17 year old gang bangers with semiautomatic weapson are
>>> not "kids with assault rifles." I live in gang banger heaven here.
> The
>>> "kids" seem to favor old revolvers....it's only the more "mature"
> 16
>>> year olds and above and up that have moved into semiautomatic and
>>> automatic weapons.
>>
>> What do you do to defend yourself?
>>
>
> Why do you think I'm so paranoid that I need to defend myself?
You're posting here. Therefore, you're probably in the top 5% of "richest
people". A natural target for agression. Your methods of defending
yourself may be as simple as "being a good person" and "helping elderly
people cross the street". but if i were in your shoes, i'd be thinking
about security.
> However,
> should the need arise, the appropriate technology is readily available.
So, how much does a reasonably good gun run? ;-) (sorry for mixing parts
of the thread).
>>> BTW, do you even know the difference between a
>>> semiautomatic weapon and an assault weapon. It sure seems that you
>>> don't.
>>
>> Assault rifles are capable of taking out cars. That's my working
>> definition.
>
> Lousy definition. A well placed round from a .45 caliber pistol or a
> .357 magnum pistol will take out a car also. Those could hardly be
> classified as assault rifles. Come back and talk when you actually KNOW
> what an assault rifle is.
I think when I wrote that, I was thinking more along the lines of armored
cars and the rifles cited in another post as being "hard to conceal" and
coming with explosive bullets.
Lena