Re: OT The Wrong Person

PETER SHORTS <petershrts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Jan 11, 5:53 pm, "Dano" <janeandd...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Jan 11, 1:35 pm, "Dano" <janeandd...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Jan 11, 10:22 am, A1...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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he sounds like a responsible gun owner.  he was prepared, kept
his cool, and did the right thing.  he also had the presence of
mind n
ot
to act in a way so as not to make himself a target.  i only wish
a
ll
gun owners were this responsible.

I only wish he understood that himself.  Allowing himself to be a
"p
oster
boy" on the basis of this incident and the events as they unfolded
see
ms
counter-intuitive to what actually happened here.  Especially
since
he
acknowledged how lucky he was that he didn't shoot the other
fellow go
od
Samaritan.

'lucky' was his modest way of stating it.  he was level-headed and
kept his cool.

Yes he was.  However...the gun he carried turned out to be entirely
unnecessary and even irrelevant.  Ironic to use him as a "poster boy"
f
or
loosening already loose handgun restrictions in a state where, as I
understand it, a carry permit is not even required now.  Perhaps this
terrible tragedy might not have happened had the laws been a little
more restrictive.

well, i miss the irony, and i don't think that tighter gun laws would
have stopped this shooting. maybe i need more information, but i
don't see the connection.


I think you're right. We have the laws in place; we just have too many
*illegal* guns. If we had tougher background checks, he might not have
bought his legally, but finding an illegal one wouldn't have been hard.

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