On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Ernest Hua wrote:
Would you just hand out guns to all teenagers?
I was 17 when Uncle Shithead handed me my first M-16, and I wasn't the youngest person in my company.
No where in this list of high priority items is respect for human life,
I'm in my late 20's, and respect for human life is lower than ever.
Incidentally, if you are interested, I DO have a child (almost 2 yrs), and I certainly would not even contemplate letting him have a gun (no matter how well he can use it) until he can legal get one himself. I will certainly invoke serious wrath (on him and anyone else involved) if I ever found him with a gun.
Yes, those guns are evil things. Evil I tell you, constantly shooting people for no reason, going off half-cocked and whooping it up all by their polished oiled ol selves. Isn't it funny how otherwise rational people can ascribe intentions and moral alignement (ie. good/evil) to an inert chunk of steel?
By the way, would you let a 6 year old drive? or fly? (Assuming that they are physical capable and trained to do such.)
I was driving tractors(small ones) and motorcycles long before I turned 16. My father started teaching me to drive a car (thru asking questions &etc.) when I was about 12, and put me behind the wheel of a van when I was 15 (in a controled situation away from traffic). He also taught me the basics of gun saftey, and made sure that I took those classes that were available to me in the areas of gun saftey and marksmanship. Then again for all his faults my father is a relatively rational human being about most things. Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@smoke.suba.com