On 7/27/2012 12:25, Lee Lofaso -> John Massey wrote:   
      
    BK>>> With all the guns in this society, why wasn't there even one   
    BK>>> person with a concealed carry permit and a handgun?   
      
    JM>> Don't know   
      
    LL> Moviegoers are not allowed to bring weapons into a theater.   
      
   That's not true in all States. Not sure about Colorado   
   Definitely not true in Ga. and Florida.   
      
      
    LL> I have met several homeless vets on the street.  Many of them   
    LL> have lifelong injuries and/or mental problems.  Getting shot or   
    LL> shot at is not something that one easily forgets.   
      
   I know. Been there done that. BUT I and millions of others   
   GOT OVER IT and moved on.   
      
    LL> Especially   
    LL> by those who have lost an arm and/or a leg (or worse).   
      
   Your point?   
      
    JM>> You saying I've never had a personal tragedy or experienced grief?   
      
    LL> Not the kind of grief that some others have suffered.  For example,   
    LL> one of my friends (now deceased) was shot in the head in Vietnam.   
      
   One of my friends got shot I was there. I wasn't able to do anything to save   
   him. I will never forget him  but I don't dwell on the event either.   
      
    LL> He spent the next two and a half years in hospitals, most of that   
    LL> time in a coma.  He spent the rest of his life in constant pain,   
    LL> which is to say almost forty years.  The amount of money spent by   
    LL> our government to have kept him alive all those years should not   
    LL> be an issue.   
      
   Agreed.   
      
      
    LL> Nor should the amount of money spent to keep any   
    LL> of our other citizens (whether veterans or scientists or teachers   
    LL> or even homeless bums) alive be an issue.   
      
   I disagree.   
      
      
    LL> The right to life is a RIGHT, not a privilege.   
      
   Your life might be a right, but your demanding that others take care   
   of those to sorry to do for them self is not.   
      
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