[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa

Shame on you for a despicable ad hominem attack.

Further, your "what if" could be extended to almost any circumstance.

What if........... a child got a butcher knife out of the kitchen and killed another child?
What if........... a child fell in the family swimming pool and drowned?
What if........... a child was standing behind the family car and dad backed up over him?
And so on ad infinitum.........

You surely don't claim there are too many butcher knives, swimming pools or family cars.

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As a retired cop I can also tell you that you mishandled the situation. You should not have picked up and handled the pistol.

What if.......... it had just been used in a murder a few blocks away and the murderer threw it out his car window when he thought he was about to be stopped by the police? Maybe the young man in camo seen searching the area had returned to retrieve it.

Your handling of the pistol could have obliterated all of the fingerprints of the murderer. Then, even if the gun could be linked to the crime by ballistics, it could not necessarily be linked to the murderer.

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One misused and/or mishandled gun cannot be projected into a generality that "there are too many guns."

If there were only ten guns in the United States and you found one beside the road that wouldn't mean there were too many guns in the country, just that one was mishandled.

The same is true if there are 270 million guns. It just means that the one you found was mishandled.

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hats off Carl. I always know you know what you are talking about.



edited to correct...I should have said "What you talk about you truly know about"...that separates you.