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RE: Alarming statistics.
Your
fear of armed intruders in your home is a sad indictment of the culture that
deems it important that there is a constitutional right to bear
arms.
If the
UK is apparently as dangerous as (or more so than) the US in terms of
dangerous crime as Robert suggests, then I must surely start lobbying my MP to
liberalise our firearms laws to turn the UK into the last frontier. Somehow, I
don't think I'll get very far. Thank God.
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