Re: Virginia Tech murders

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:33:51 -0400, "Evelyn Ruut"
<evelyn.ruut@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


<pantess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I use my guns for other purposes, as most do:

1. To defend my self and home from potential attack, a lawful
activity.

2. To practice target shooting, a lawful activity which I find very
enjoyable.

I would like to own a semi-automatic pistol because if I were ever in
a situation whereby I was being shot at, I would like more than one
chance to defend myself. You wouldn't like to get only one punch to
bring down a fist-weilding attacker, would you? How confident are you
that you could bring him/her down with one punch? I am not very
confident that i can bring down an attacker with my pistol even aiming
at the center of mass. Real life isn't lke Hollywood, it's a day by
day fight for your survival out there, like it or not.

I WILL NOT rely on law enforcement to protect myself and my family.
Your own personal protection is your own responsibility, and everyone
must take responsibility for their own actions.

This is an interesting narrative:

"So are some of you glad that the victims couldn't shoot back?

You must know that you will never be able to get rid of all the guns.

And until you get rid of ALL of them, how dare you try to get rid of
ANY of them?

Until you have confiscated every last gun from every last person who
is evil, how dare you confiscate a single gun from a single person who
is innocent?

You know damned well that evil is rampant, that it is lawless, and
that it is armed. And you know damned well that it always has been and
always will be.

And you know that those things are not subject to your wishes or to
your laws, and that you can't change them, that they are eternal.

So how DARE you claim the "right" to deprive an innocent human being
of the ability to protect his life, knowing he may be faced with an
enemy like that?

How DARE you demand that he obey YOUR wishes and stay helplessly
locked in a stone building with the doors chained shut while he and
his classmates and his teacher are literally shot apart like fish in a
barrel?

How the hell DARE you?

I guess you dare because you're "special". You're "enlightened".
You're "noble".

Then you ought to have the shred of nobility to admit to yourselves--
even if only in your private moments in your beds at night--that since
evil is indeed rampant, lawless, armed and eternal, that perhaps the
true enabler of the homocidal monster isn't the working man who built
the gun which can equally serve the good or the evil, but rather the
enabler is YOU who KNOWINGLY demand laws which disarm only the victims
and serve only the evil.

Don't think so? You don't think that's how it played out yesterday at
Fish-In-A-Barrel-U?

Then go ahead, drift off to sleep tonight trying to forget what I'm
reminding you of. Just do it. Forget it. Don't think about it tonight.
Don't think about it EVER. Make sure you DO NOT imagine that you're
floating there amid the dead, the dying and the doomed, seeing the
horror and telling yourself all the noble things you'd do to fix it if
only you could. Whoops, too late--in your earlier moments "awake"
you've already voted for every gun control legislation and policy on
the ballot, so you've already done what you could. Don't think about
it (you certainly never did before). Don't imagine that all that's
left to you is to explain to those innocent victims in their last
moments of bloody screaming terror at the hands of eternal lawless
evil, just why it is that you believe as you do, voted as you did, and
how you were oh so proud of yourself back then for making sure they
can't SHOOT back now.

Yeah, seriously. You should be proud enough to shout it from the
rooftops, print it on your tshirts, and seek out their grieving family
members, always saying the same thing: "At least I helped make sure
they couldn't shoot back!"

Come on, go for it! I'll put MY thoughts on a tshirt: "At least I'm
trying to make sure the next victims can shoot back!" So I think you
should put yours on a tshirt too.

Or, of course, you can just forget it. Don't imagine any of it.
Whatever you do, do NOT think about it. Especially not tonight.

Or any time you're in a place that can be turned into a barrel.

Sweet. Dreams."

Exactly-'excuse.' there is simply no reason for anyone to own such a
semi-automatic HANDGUN, which has no purpose other than TO KILL PEOPLE.
Only people having a need to kill others would have need of such a
weapon. In our society, that means members of the armed forces and law
enforcement.




You said it so well Pantess. Only you shouldn't have top posted. People
need to see the comment just above mine here, to know that you were speaking
against this kind of absurdity.

I remember VERY well back in the 1950's when kids who had no guns made Zip
Guns out of car antennas, pipes and whatever. They didn't need to get
their hands on a real gun to kill others, they made ways to do it.

People who intend to kill will do it no matter what. The real enemy is the
intention to harm another.


Not the point. Easy access to guns makes it a lot easier and deadly
than making zip guns out of car antennas.
Thumper
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