Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site spp2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!jhull From: jhull@spp2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics,net.rec Subject: Re: Merry Christmas from the NRA Message-ID: <354@spp2.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 21:43:46 EST Article-I.D.: spp2.354 Posted: Wed Jan 9 21:43:46 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 06:38:35 EST References: <2974@allegra.UUCP> <1912@sun.uucp> <297@desint.UUCP> Reply-To: jhull@spp2.UUCP (Jeff Hull) Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach CA Lines: 59 Xref: watmath net.politics:6777 net.rec:203 Summary: In article <297@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes: >John D. McDonald said it best. The difference between a handgun and a knife >is that a handgun is impersonal. To successfully murder with a knife, you >have to come close enough to engage in a struggle (and usually do so), and >most of the time you have to stab repeatedly to actually achieve a kill, >despite the fact that blood is very likely gushing from the first wound. >Not a project for the weak of stomach. > A point of view with which I agree completely. >With a gun, on the other hand, you can be across the room. A small sickly >person can, in a moment of anger, snatch up a gun, point, squeeze, and fell >a burly man. The first shot is usually enough. This is not at all the same >thing. > Again, I agree. I also know that a small sickly person can snatch up a gun, point, squeeze, and fell a burly mugger/rapist/... >Another thing McDonald said: "the only two things you can kill with a >handgun are beer cans and people." I have never heard that successfully >refuted. Handguns are good target weapons; like anything they can be fun >to collect. They are not good for hunting. Please, let me be the first to refute it. In 1977, I shot and killed a 5 point buck deer with a Ruger Super Blackhawk, a .44 caliber, single-action revolver. It dressed out at somewhere around 100 pounds and was subsequently eaten with great enjoyment. >Oh, right, the burglar. RRRRRIIIIIIGGGGGGHHHHHHTTTTTTT. You're going to >wake up in the middle of the night, rip that pistol out from under your >pillow, and plug that sucker square between the eyes. Starting from a sound >sleep, and beating the guy to the draw. RRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGHHHHHHHTTTTTTT. >If you're quick enough to beat the guy to the draw, I bet it turns out to be >your brother on a surprise visit. Any *really* dangerous intruder is going >to be armed, cocked, and jumpy. > For anyone interested in protecting his life and the lives of his family, I recommend a short-barrel 12 gauge shotgun, behind a simple home security alarm system. Total cost in the neighborhood of $400. The alarm wakes you up, you get the shotgun, and, if the jerk hasn't left, you have sufficient reason to believe he doesn't intend to, so kill him. I suggest #6 or #8 birdshot rather than anything heavier because it won't penetrate walls and, therefore, isn't a danger to your neighbors or family members. >Royko's first prize went to a fellow who picked up his gun instead of the >ringing phone, and shot himself in the ear. That's the sort of thing sleepy >people do. > Geoff Kuenning Yes, they do. We all do stupid things occasionally and we all have to pay, in one form or another, for our mistakes. If I ever do something like this, go ahead and laugh at me, I'll deserve it. -- Blessed Be, Jeff Hull ihnp4!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!jhull 13817 Yukon Ave. Hawthorne, CA 90250