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Originally Posted by nitehawk
I agree with you -- maybe a good marketing tool would be a free gun for everyone who buys a new house in TV - then all people will be equal - i dont think i will conceal mine - Carrying a gun increases risk of getting shot and killed - check it out--
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...nd-killed.html |
thanks for posting that article.
it is one of thousands.
Socio-scientific studies are numerous as well, but it's a tough argument to make with a gun fan - they have strong wills and are backed by a strong
lobby.
Fortunately people like Red are responsible according to what we read here.
She knows just when she would need it. If she were threatened.
But we have always wondered something. Drawing and discharging are human-, not computer-controlled. Powder can project lead faster than judgements can be made.
So lets hypothetically say.... someone's up to something.
Altercation, robbery, whatever.
The responsible, trained, law-abiding gun carrier senses/feels/knows/assumes that there's 'life-not-just-injury' being threatened. Maybe the perp reaches for the 'heater', and the vigilante does as well. So the perp was just messin' 'round and threatening only.
What's the call? ball or strike? Fair or foul? fielder's choice?
We're just asking....do you look for the pin moving, the fire from the barrel?
When do you make the choice to draw/fire?
Vigilante reaches, maybe draws.... then the perp feels threatened and blows you away or maybe wings you.
Then there are those situations when it's your own piece that gets used on you.
Remember, there are professional thugs out there better at what they do than what so many of the law-abiding toters can do.
It's just plain messy and that's all the arguing we will be doing.
We will forever feel for the friends we once knew who are gone from the effects of lead slugs - both their own and those of others.
L and L