On 12/21/2012 8:06, BOB KLAHN -> JOHN MASSEY wrote:   
      
    BK>   ...   
      
    JM>> How many LAW ABIDING Americans who own millions of "assault   
    JM>> rifles" killed no one this week?   
      
    BK>   They didn't have the opportunity.   
      
   Sure they had the opportunity. They just chose not to kill.   
      
      
    JM>> Besides "assault rifles" are not used as a primary hunting   
    JM>> rife by serious hunters. That's not what they are for. Mine   
    JM>> will be used to defend my property when society breaks down   
    JM>> or ANYONE tries to take them away.   
      
    BK>   And when society does not break down?   
      
   Then I will have been shown wrong. UNTIL then What harm is there in me owning   
   what you call an assault rifle?   
      
      
    JM>> Blaming guns for murder by an insane person is like blaming   
    JM>> the pencil and paper for misspelled words.   
      
    BK>   If the person is insane, then arming the teachers would not have   
    BK>   discouraged him.   
      
   It would not discourage him? You 100% sure? If so how are you 100% sure that   
   if he knew the teachers were armed it would not have discouraged him.   
      
   But setting that diversion aside, arming the teachers MIGHT have stopped him   
   before as many kids had been killed.   
      
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