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Brad Krawchuk
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Or maybe we should all carry our guns on our hips like Wyatt Earp.
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Curiously, while many of us use the Wild West analogy to describe the gun-owner mentality, I was watching Wyatt Earp last week and several towns had gun laws where you had to turn your gun in to the sheriff and get it back when you left city limits again.
Even in the Wild West, people surrendered their guns!
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Kurtis J. Evans
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A baseball bat under the bed, on the other hand...
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Al Cook
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John Byrne
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Curiously, while many of us use the Wild West analogy to describe the gun-owner mentality, I was watching Wyatt Earp last week and several towns had gun laws where you had to turn your gun in to the sheriff and get it back when you left city limits again. Even in the Wild West, people surrendered their guns! •• It is indeed one of the odder things about this Nation of ours, that as we have become more "civilized" our ideas about what to do with guns have become LESS civilized!
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Michael Huber
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Off subject Kurtis, but do you know how many times someone has a bat, club, whatever, and has had it taken and turned on them? Any weapon has the potential to be used, abused, stolen, and misused.
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Al Cook
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Including, most disastrously, a gun.
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Michael Huber
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Dead is dead, I don't know how far beyond dead you can go. Unless you start keeping count.
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Kurtis J. Evans
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Precisely, Al.
That's why I sleep with a velcro glove on, and a velcro bat under the bed. Try to take that away.
(Of course, I do lose precious seconds whenever my hand gets caught in my hair...)
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Kurtis J. Evans
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But in all seriousness, I think you're missing the point a bit, Michael Huber.
I'm not so worried about a home invader. I am worried about what my kids would do if they found a gun, even if I instructed them on gun safety. It's a heck of a lot harder for a kid to be accidentally killed by a baseball bat than it is to be accidentally killed by a gun blast.
That said, it's also still a lot easier to brandish a baseball bat than it is to obtain and load a safely secured handgun. And if I got to choose between being shot or being hit hard by a baseball bat, it's a no-brainer...
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Al Cook
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Dead is dead. Which is why it's asinine to continue to defend the virtually unregulated access to a weapon designed specifically to render a human being into that state as swiftly as possible.
Dead does not discriminate between adult or child, good or bad, or any other thing.
And keeping count is exactly what we should be doing!
How many deaths now since this thread has started???
It makes me sick.
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Kurtis J. Evans
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Also, I really think we're all missing the point here.
I mean, vending machines kill an average of 2.3 people per year... how come nobody here is moving to have THEM outlawed?!? Hypocrites!
/irony
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Victor Manuel Fernandez Patiño
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How Spider-Man would have been if Uncle Ben had had a gun and would have killed the burglar in self defense? Or if Aunt May would have avenged Uncle Ben's death with a gun? Peter would have been a wrestler all his life instead of being a hero?
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