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Tom Keats
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In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected]othanks (James S. Prine) writes:
>>Anyways, screw weapons!
>
> A strange way to end what had been an intelligent and reasonable opinion about
> dogs, etc.
Not necessarily. Weapons do much more harm than good.
The last thing this world needs is to be turned into
an arsenal. The first thing it needs is a global
block party.
As for weapons, it seems to me the average civilian
(such as myself) who might once in a blue moon need
'em, can't use 'em. All possessing a weapon does is
add to the inventory. Oh, I've killed my share of
upland fowl, and other delicious life forms such
as various salmonids. I've never feared for my life
from pheasants or grouse or trout, though. I also
used to be into muzzle-loader, black powder target stuff.
That wasn't weapon-oriented either; that was just about
the sport of trying to shoot a 5-shot one-holer in paper
at 100 yards w/ open sights -- which at one time in my
youth, I was actually able to approach.
In my previous post I mentioned how some folks might think:
'a dog is a dog is a dog'. Up here in Canada, a gun is a
gun is a gun, and they're all 'weapons'. So a li'l
single-shot, swingable, slightly-modified-choked 4/10 is
equiv to an M-16. But I've grown out of all that ****
anyway (but not my taste for roast pheasant, or a mess
of pan-fried brook trout for breakfast.)
And the people who actually want weapons, don't really
need 'em. And a lot of those people IMO /shouldn't/
have 'em.
I just think it's better to concentrate more on helpin'
rather than hurtin'.
klahowya,
Tom
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[email protected]othanks (James S. Prine) writes:
>>Anyways, screw weapons!
>
> A strange way to end what had been an intelligent and reasonable opinion about
> dogs, etc.
Not necessarily. Weapons do much more harm than good.
The last thing this world needs is to be turned into
an arsenal. The first thing it needs is a global
block party.
As for weapons, it seems to me the average civilian
(such as myself) who might once in a blue moon need
'em, can't use 'em. All possessing a weapon does is
add to the inventory. Oh, I've killed my share of
upland fowl, and other delicious life forms such
as various salmonids. I've never feared for my life
from pheasants or grouse or trout, though. I also
used to be into muzzle-loader, black powder target stuff.
That wasn't weapon-oriented either; that was just about
the sport of trying to shoot a 5-shot one-holer in paper
at 100 yards w/ open sights -- which at one time in my
youth, I was actually able to approach.
In my previous post I mentioned how some folks might think:
'a dog is a dog is a dog'. Up here in Canada, a gun is a
gun is a gun, and they're all 'weapons'. So a li'l
single-shot, swingable, slightly-modified-choked 4/10 is
equiv to an M-16. But I've grown out of all that ****
anyway (but not my taste for roast pheasant, or a mess
of pan-fried brook trout for breakfast.)
And the people who actually want weapons, don't really
need 'em. And a lot of those people IMO /shouldn't/
have 'em.
I just think it's better to concentrate more on helpin'
rather than hurtin'.
klahowya,
Tom
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