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Regards,
Bob
Wow. That's terrific Bob. I haven't heard one word about any of this on OUR news. Wonder why?
Why don't you call and find out? Add my name to the list of inquiring minds.
Especially since it is a reporter from the U.S.
The background music should have been the Beatles singing Happiness Is A Warm Gun.
Personally, I wish everyone who was legally entitled to carry a weapon (firearm if you wish) could do so anywhere in the country, including the airlines. Those of us who don't present a danger to other law-abiding individuals outnumber those who do. As a commercial pilot, I often am armed in my plane.
The World Trade Center Buildings would still be standing if that were the case. Likely, no shot would have been fired, even more likely, the vermin would have not have chosen to attempt the hi-jack knowing that. And before you do the knee jerk response, a bullet through the fuselage doesn't cause depressurization of a pressurized airplane even with a missed shot. There is an over-abundance of bleed air.
By legally entitled, that means sober and mentally competent, and not a criminal, having passed a background check.
I certainly don't agree that only law enforcement should have weapons, as we have had plenty of criminals or domestically violent LEOs caught and convicted for various felonies. A not insignificant number of LEOs go into that career because they like the power of the uniform.
I don't hunt game, I respect those who do, but I enjoy shooting competitively for accuracy with rifles, speed and accuracy with pistols, as well as Trap, Sporting Clays, and Skeet with my shotgun. Those are freedoms I won't give up without a fight.
I have been on the wrong side of a gun in a robbery and have been armed ever since. I have had break-ins at my house twice, and have exercised restraint when chasing the thug to not shoot him. I have been chased down by someone just for passing through his neighborhood bearing a tag from another county, with him jumping out and beating on my car window at the first light I stopped at and screaming at me to stay out of his neighborhood. I didn't shoot him either, although I was prepared to do so if the window had broken and I felt my life was in immediate danger. I do insist on having the option. Each time gun control was in play and everyone lived. It is not a guaranteed outcome, but each instance of a threat must be taken seriously and with as much thought as the time allows.
Gun shows here require everyone, including the exhibitors, to check their firearms and have the action locked to prevent a cartridge from being loaded. The eight year old would never have been able to fire a shot in my state. His irresponsible father would have had to do that at another time away from the show. Stupid has no limitations.
Well put!!!
Last I checked, bad guys don't need licenses or permits to obtain or use firearms.
Is the permit/license process going to keep bad guys from getting or using firearms? Are we wasting tax dollars by making people get permits/licenses?
If they're going to jail for robbing a bank anyway, does it bother a bad guy if they get another couple of years in jail for robbing the bank with a firearm?
If firearms are banned in the UK, why are there firearm crimes committed there? Are you saying that the bad guys aren't complying with the ban?
Since people with criminal intent will find firearms or other weapons, it becomes imperative that the law abiding citizen be prepared to defend ourselves and family with any weapon we find effective and manageable.
I agree with Ted Nugent. The US Constitution and Bill of Rights should be my concealed carry permit, except that the right to defend one's self and family in any way necessary at any appropriate level, predates that document by a few million years.
All animals have the right to protect themselves, most carrying concealed or open weapons genetically engineered into them. The diversity of weapons in the animal kingdom is mind boggling, even at the human level of innovation.
The jail time for use of a gun in committing a felony is an extra ten years here over and above the base crime time.
Great idea <img src="<>/laugh.gif" alt="laugh" title="laugh" height="15" width="15" /> -- I could get a pet skunk to carry around with me and train it to fire on command.
That would be very effective! It would also deter any attacks or approaches by anyone in the near future following the initial discharge of the weapon. <img src="<>/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin" height="15" width="15" />
Does the saying
This is going to hurt me more than it does you
mean anything? <img src="<>/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin" height="15" width="15" />
after a few episodes of
COPS
, I don't think pepper spray/mace is very effective against meth-heads.... but it does piss them off pretty good...
So, it's TASER or better...