On Jun 8, 3:20 pm, Omelet > wrote:
> In article >,
> "Pete C." > wrote:
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> > "-L." wrote:
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> > > Omelet wrote:
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> > > > I have to travel and shop alone the majority of the time.
>
> > > > One more good reason to simply travel armed.
>
> > > > If this girl had been, maybe she'd still be alive.
>
> > > And he might have just used her own gun on her, as well.
>
> > That is always one of the anti-guners arguments, however the statistics
> > simply don't back it up. Trained, licensed gun owners rarely ever have
> > their own guns used on them and they also have much better hit rates
> > than the police do.
>
> Very true! And it's not hard to google for cites.
> Most armed citizens practice more for one thing.
> I shoot as much for recreation as anything else.
> It's fun and relaxing and it's a personal challenge to become a better
> marksman.
>
> I can post target jpegs.
>
>
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> > > > I've noted that most are too cowardly to address that issue.
>
> > > Nope, just don't agree with it what-so-ever. I'd more than happy if
> > > they banned guns altogether. The US is uniquely ****ed up with
> > > respect to gun laws.
>
> > No, the anti-guners are uniquely ****ed up in their willful blindness to
> > the real statistics that debunk their arguments. Ok, perhaps not
> > uniquely since the same applies to those "Intelligent design" loons...
>
> <lol>
>
> I much prefer "Intelligent design" to Creationism and total denial of
> Evolution :-)
>
> It marries the two concepts nicely.

As long as you consider a marriage between a human and an aardvark to
be nice.

> --
> Peace, Om

--Bryan