I'm the grammarian about whom your mother warned you. (:

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:14 PM, <Brandon.Chase@...> wrote:

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> Fine. You wanna get snarky and ruin the discourse? Be my guest. I'll
> go qualify superlatives elsewhere.
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> On 04/16/09 13:55, Roger Metzger wrote:
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> > You might want to be careful about qualifying superlatives (a bit
> > rediculous), but I'd really like to take your advice. Some people might
> > think there can't be such a thing as a gun-toting liberal. But consider
> my
> > dilemma: most of my friends are vegetarian pacifists who consider
> > themselves to be quite "conservative".
> > I, too, consider it unlikely hat anyone will embark on a major crime
> > spree armed only with a 1377. But if someone steals mine (unlikely
> because
> > it keep it in the aforementioned steel gun cabinet with a triple-latch
> > lock), pumps it up in his car before entering you place of business and
> > points it at you, I'd suggest you try to avoid provoking him into
> > squeezing
> > the trigger. A .177-caliber pellet traveling at between 500 and 600 feet
> > per second would do a LOT of damage, particularly if the shot is
> > well-placed.
> > There is nothing wrong with encouraging/requiring people to think of a
> > 1377 as a lethal weapon. Even my DAisy Grizzly should be handled as if it
> > were a leathal weapon. But I still haven't tried to find out whether the
> > Michigan legislature has "defined" my wife's butcher knife as a firearm.
> > That would make about as much sense!
> > R.M.
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM,
<Brandon.Chase@...<Brandon.Chase%40sun.com>
> > <mailto:Brandon.Chase%40sun.com <Brandon.Chase%2540sun.com>>> wrote:
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> > > Having to register a single shot air pistol seems a bit ridiculous. The
> > > whole point of gun registration would seem to be a crime deterrent,
> > > although the efficacy of such a policy could (and should) certainly be
> > > debated. That being said, I'd be hard pressed to imagine someone using
> > > an air gun that you have to load (and pump!) for every shot in a major
> > > violent crime. It would certainly make for some entertaining
> > > headlines, however :)
> > >
> > > As I've always said, I think the primary factor when it comes to this
> > > kind of thing is ignorance. As "gun toting liberals", I think we
> > > sometimes forget how profoundly ignorant our non-gun owning liberal
> > > friends can be. I recently introduced a very liberal friend of mine to
> > > shooting, and I can honestly say he knew absolutely nothing outside of
> > > "guns are dangerous", so I sat down with him, filled him in on firearm
> > > safety, showed him a few guns and how they work, then we went to the
> > > range. Three hours later he was buying his first firearm, a Ruger
> 10/22.
> > >
> > > For as long as I've known him (six years), this guy has been vehemently
> > > anti-gun, but a little education and hands on experience changed that
> in
> > > one afternoon. I've done this with several friends and acquaintances
> > > over the years, and while not all of them got into shooting or ended up
> > > buying a gun, they've all had to rethink their position on guns and gun
> > > ownership. I know its slow, but I still think its the best way to fight
> > > irrational and ineffective gun legislation.
> > >
> > > Brandon
> > >
> > >
> > > On 04/16/09 11:41, Roger Metzger wrote:
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> > > > But to say that any airgun IS a firearm is as absurd as to claim
> > to not
> > > > know what "is" is.
> > > > Do any of you have any suggestions about how to deal with (rectify)
> > > > this absurdity?
> > > > R.M.
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