> I'm all for EVERYONE being able to carry a weapon to defend
> themselves, as
> long as they are licensed, trained, have completed a psychological
> evaluation
> and background check for criminal / violent behavior, and have it
> concealed so
> they don't scare people walking around next to them.
ABSOLUTELY!!! trained checked and licensed! (and concealed!) .. and
I personally like the new laws where they have extended time to do
background checks!
>
> AND, I'm all for EVERYONE putting their guns away. You just make the
> criminals put theirs away, first.
>
> ;)
>
> Later,
> Stephen W.
Most civilized countries... ...like Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, and Mussolini's Italy, all of which confiscated the guns of their populace... ...or like...
I absolutely agree with Stephen on this .... It would be a much better world and I would glad to sell / dismantle every one of my weapons .... just many sure...
you have to understand, the pacifistic peace at any cost crowd. We must show the criminal we mean them no harm and refrain from judging them in a less than...
I understand and agree with your implied meaning .... I guess for me (like many who train for real) the realism of being able to attempt to protect (I won't...
Hello Mike, Speaking as one of them thar crazier 'n a bedbug gosh durned furners who argue for a no guns policy (Not extended to on duty law enforcement.), I...
chris while I can see the logic flow in your reasoning what scares me about that argument is ... who decides who is emotionally stable ... and who determines...
Hi Bruce, Well, you and I, of course! ;^DDD Mine is an end game argument. We all have very bad days, and I'd prefer to make it that much harder for people to...
... Maybe we should coordinate our efforts then? Which day were you going to be lucid? ****************************************************************** You...
well thank you Chris, what I will do now that you have enligthened me is to take all of my firearms (mostly long weapons) down to the local PD and turn them...
Yes, it's a logical statement like this that fills me with confidence in some gun owners. Here I was thinking this was a discussion group, and that this is a ...
my point is I have seen it from other points of view. I have seen in the world where the one who holds the power of death usually is a dictator who uses his...
... Wow! Is that true? I've never heard that before. What was the source of that information? Not that I'm doubting it at all - I'm just a bit surprised. I...
I am not sure that statistics about guns [either for or against ] can be used to make an effective argument ... the problems are of course that all numbers can...
... my personal ... a ... Sadly, this is the case.. .. but then, the causes of this are very complicated, go back a long way and go hand in glove with other...
Harry I am very certain that you are completely correct ... despite traveling in Europe a fair bit, even the obvious inferences of social an political...
Hi Stephen, My post to Harry was really just a tease to him welcoming him back to the USA. I didn't want to get into a whole debate over which caliber is...
i know this deviates way from the main martial arts topics but as a person who also believes that hand loading and customizing load and bullet size and shape...
... My Dad, who was a marksman himself and appreciated the art of shooting, always joked about using twice the ammunition (or three times) to do the job. ... I...
and "wasting" my money putting lead down range into a target is something that keeps me off the street ... and out of other trouble Bruce ****Ya see that!...
Hi Harry, Well I am glad at any rate you've found a place to hang your Hat...Hachimaki or what have you! :-) I am sorry to hear that there isn't much in the...
A request: CAN WE DROP THE TALK ABOUT GUNS PLEASE? It was a chance jokey comment by Tom.. to me.. and all of a sudden there's a full blown GUN argment going...
I have a delete key in case I'm not interested ina topic Guns are a part of martial arts today. Should we also take seriously requests to stop talking about...
... Rick, there may be some cross-pollination but I'd wager that as far as the personal experience of most list members here (a large proportion of the 940...
It made the news when a guy tried to hold up a woman with a gun and she pepper sprayed him. He ran into my wife's work building and police found him in the...
A civilized society wouldn't need a police force We'd be doing the right things because they were the right things to do and would have no concept of doing the...
As long as there are millions of people crammed into cities, resources are short, and tempers flair, we will never achieve "civility" in society..... Alas, ...
Glock's trigger is made so there is less travel to "recovery" prior to the second shot, allowing for faster double-tapping. Some say (and Glock claims) people...
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