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   >> Methods exist, such as thumnbprint control required to fire, or a locked box   
   > requiring double thumb prints to open.   
   > I can see it now, some bad guy is prowling around in someone's home   
   >intent on mischief and the owner has to go through all that to protect himself   
   > Meanwhile the bad guy is locked and loaded ready to do damage without a   
   > second thought.   
      
   True enough.  Best to train these gun owners to take care of their guns &    
   properly lock them up when not in attendence with them.   
      
   > Far more news is made by someone making a mischief than one using a gun   
   > for self defence.   
   > Its like a car, again.  There's no news in thousands of drivers going   
   > about their business with no problem.  It the one who is involved in an   
   > accident that makes the news.   
      
   "Dog bites man" is not new, but "Man bites dog" is, unless he's on Coney    
   Island, maybe!   
      
   > The other guys in SP, even regulars, were armed only with a baton and   
   > mine was made of balsa wood.  :)   
   > Of no one (other than us) knew who had a effective baton or not.   
   > The baton was deterrence.   
      
   Not to someone hoped up on some thing, or just seriously enraged, beyond reason   
   & awareness, then the balsa holder is in big trouble. Did you carry a proper    
   cosh in your back pocket for such an emergency?   
      
   I've seen the knives the army has -- one of those in your boot would   
   seriously  increase your self-confidence in any "Situation."   
      
   My main defense, if needed, is my brain -- I'll first try to talk down the    
   miscreant, then use what I know about self defense to maximize mty chance of    
   survival (we had a rash of swarmings where older men were murdered by a crowd    
   of teen thugs--my knowldeghe of this gives me a legal basis to feel my life   
   is  in danger & I can use force as warranted & necessary to defend   
   myself--leader  is going down & HARD, & he'll probably be crying & mewling   
   after--that'll get  half the rest running away.)   
      
   >> Are the Seals a separate program within the USN who are separated from the   
   > main Navy & trained with a greater intensity like the Marines?   
   > No need for a sidearm on a ship.   
      
   In wartime, I'd hope, as the enemy Seal-types could board you on the quiet    
   sider & attenpt to take over the ship'scontrols.   
      
   >> His main job was escorting supply boats across the Atlantic.   
   > A brother was in the Coast Guard for supply ships in the Pacific.   
   > His ship carried whatever was needed somewhere.  One time it might be   
   > soap, another TP.  He was killed in January 1945 when they were carrying ammo   
   > and something happened with the ship blowing up in the harbour at   
   > Guadalcanal, with all hands lost, save fou   
   > I was named after him, five years and two days later.   
      
   He was the sole fatality? :(    
      
   >> I think it really sucks that both your houses are partisan.  On 6-Jan, 2021   
   > during the coup   
   > Getting a bit close to modern politics there.   
      
   Fair enough; I'm sorry.   
      
   I was going more for the philosophic view: that balance is required in all    
   things, especially those involved with groups of people.   
      
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