Re: Alarming statistics.

[CamaroGen1@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 6/29/01 4:39:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
dddl21455@cableinet.co.uk writes:


> The comparison to cars and road safety is, quite frankly, bollocks. To many 
> people a car is essential (I, like many people, simply cannot get to work 
> without one). Within the UK for example there are a ridiculous number of 
> car owners (and yes, quite probably too many for safety). But equally, 
> there are probably around 99%+ of people who have no use for a firearm in 
> their daily life whatsoever.



     Well, i find it hard to feel safe in my home without my assembled and 
fully loaded Beretta, the same as you would find it hard to find your way to 
work without a car.  The plain truth is the application of the term "use".  
You "use" your car everyday.  I maintain, I "use" my Beretta everyday, it is 
an insurance policy against an armed intruder in my home.
       How often do you "use" you auto insurance? Home insurance?  But you 
would find it hard to function without those policies.
Point is, we license millions of people a day to DRIVE a deadly weapon, 
without much concern.  You can argue "intended use" theroy all you want, the 
rhetoric most used in gun abolishinists is "possible harm", and I have to 
tell you, i fear the "possible harm" of the guy driving next to me on the 
freeway at 70mph more.\

Benjamin