On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Matt Elliott wrote: [snip]

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You people just don't get it do you? A gun has one purpose: To kill. Just like any other tool, a gun, if it is available _will_ be used at some point.

Yea, so what is your point. As long as it is lawfull killing that seems to me to be the point to use a gun. For lawfull purposes. Criminals will always be using guns anyway. If they take away guns people will just find another just as forcefull method of defending them selves. I have a potato gun that will put a 3 inch hole in just about any living creature. I'm going to take it deer hunting this winter. It will be cool to say I shot a dear with a potato and a can of hair spray (the propelant)

I completely disagree. I bet you'd disagree too when the cops come to take you away for using illegal crypto. It would be totally lawful. But that's besides the point. Killing people is NOT a good thing. It never is. It might be unavoidable in a you-or-him situation, but that doesn't make it a good thing. Would you like to be shot? No? Not even if someone else claims he has a good reason to? I think this goes for most people. So the best that you can do it claim that _you_ think there's a good reason to kill someone. This is not a working theory for a community. Alex --- I dabble in techno-house and sometimes, I do that badass hip-hop thang... But the F U N K gets me every time!