At 10:38 AM 7/20/96 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

Llywarch Hen writes:

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You have not had the opportunity to look closely at the business end of a gun. The hole looks enormous.

The opening in the barrel of just about every rifle or pistol I've looked at seems to be about half an inch or less. Perhaps you have been looking at the 18" guns on the battleship "New Jersey"?

There is a time and space dilation when the gun is pointed directly at you and about to be fired. (Been there, done that...) Perception tends to be skewed when all of the adrenaline is pumping into your bloodstream because of a perceived impending death. Believe me, it does look big. A 12 gauge especially... (Had a brother who came close to shooting me because he thought I was a burglar. Not fun.) --- Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ "We had to destroy the Internet in order to save it." - Sen. Exon "Microsoft -- Nothing but NT promises."