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 From: penny@pen.rhys 
  
 On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:57:51 -0800, rlacasse@inter.invalid wrote: 
  
 >On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:35:29 -0500, penny  wrote: 
 > 
 >|>> You don't take an aspirin unless you first have a pain or something to 
 >|>>that effect. 
 >|> 
 >|> 
 >|>Aspirin is a "curative" medicine. It has a use and its use is 
 >|>sometimes to stop pain.  You can't stop pain with a gun. A gun has no 
 >|>use other than to kill or maim and create lots of pain. It's like a 
 >|>knife has a use , actually a lot of uses.  One of its uses is that you 
 >|>can peel a potato with it.  But, you cannot peel a potato with a gun. 
 >|>A gun has no uses. 
 >|> 
 > "peel a potato" pretty near, that's why they invented the Spud Gun a 
 >long time ago they weren't too thrilling even for a 5 year old. 
  
  
 Go on with yout. You can't peel a potato with a gun.  Just accept the 
 fact that guns have no uses other than to kill or maim. 
  
 Practising on the range is just honing your skills to get better at 
 keeping down the animal population or polishing off dangerous 
 predators who dare to attack. 
  
 Penny 
 >|>> 
 >|>> You don't think of getting shot unless you are voluntarily  being used 
 >|>>as a target at a range, which is obviously unlikely unless you really 
 want 
 that 
 >|>>5 Million Dollar Range Sports Shooters compensation..and you can shoot 
 yourself 
 >|>>for it....Ask Me How I Know. 
 >|> 
 >|> 
 >|>That's too complex for me. 
 >|> 
 > It's also not worth it...but now we have legal gun generating a revenue 
 >for you without using it to rob banks......well that's a female intere$t 
 > 
 > Actually robbing a bank these days is easier than the range 
 >thing...people who rob banks usually have a note to the teller saying they 
 have 
 >a gun, and oddly enough they get away with it, since the public is not gun 
 wise, 
 >and all that. 
 > 
 >|>> Some people in these street gang shoots actually voluntarily jumped on 
 >|>>the person being fired on, in front of the line of fire, like in Gastown 
 >|>>Vancouver Last year. 
 >|> 
 >|>So they're choosing to commit suicide or jump in such a way they 
 >|>escape the gun shots. That doesn't establish the fact that a gun has a 
 >|>use other than killing or maiming. 
 > 
 > So you are Generally implying that you will get rid of 600million+ guns 
 >once and for all, that's impossible...it is easier to get rid of all the 
 cars 
 in 
 >the city. 
 > 
 > 
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