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 From: someone@ms.com 
  
 "penny"  wrote in message 
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 > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 03:38:46 GMT, 10x@telu€s.net wrote: 
 > 
 >>On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:11:08 GMT, LC@dinkerson.com (Ladies Choice) 
 >>wrote: 
 >> 
 >>>In article , 10x@telu€s.net 
 >>>says... 
 >>>> 
 >>> 
 >>>>>And handguns are not used to hunt for food. not that you need to in a 
 >>>>>society where it is all done for you. 
 >>>> 
 >>>>A very small percentage of the handgun bullets fired in Canada are 
 >>>>fired at humans. The rest are fired at targets.  Just because a person 
 >>>>shoots a handgun recreanally does not mean she is practicing to kill 
 >>>>people. A golfer swings a club and practices his swing. it doesn't 
 >>>>mean he's going to hit someone with a club. 
 >>>> 
 >>> 
 >>>I hope a target shooter is practicing to kill, because the more he 
 >>>practices, 
 >>>the more likely a stray bullet won't hit me when he's out trying to kill 
 >>>a 
 >>>certain person. 
 >> 
 >>Of the fifty five million shotshells fired from shotguns every year in 
 >>Canada very few are fired at human beings. 
 >>Of the hundreds of millions of .22 rimfire ammunition fired every 
 >>year, very few are fired at human beings. 
 >>Even fewer human beings are injured or killed by gunshot wounds in 
 >>Canada. 
 > 
 > But all of that shooting of five million shotshells  is useless. It 
 > has no purpose.  With a knife you can peel a potato, but you can't 
 > peel a potato with a gun.  An aspirin might cure your pain, but a gun 
 > cannot cure pain. . A car can transport you anywhere you want.  You 
 > can take your children to their after-school hobbies in a car.  A gun 
 > won't take you anywhere except to a hole in the ground in a coffin or 
 > to a hospital trauma ward. 
 > 
 > Guns are useless. 
  
 To you. But again, by what right do you believe it correct to impose your 
 beleifs and values on others? You don't like guns, fine, but let others have 
 their right to choose. 
  
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