From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 29 12:49:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.nc.rr.com (fe1.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6288E37B642 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:49:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@nc.rr.com) Received: from SATURN98 ([24.25.17.94]) by mail1.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:49:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:52:17 -0500 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.39) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1661.000329@nc.rr.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and In-reply-To: <200003291936.MAA23741@usr05.primenet.com> References: <200003291936.MAA23741@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> The few times I have been in that situation, here in the States, it >> was a knife they pulled. I would have preferred they pulled a gun; they >> would have been easier to disarm with less risk. But, they don't show >> that in the movies, either. TL> Agreed. TL> It's also a fact that most handgun echanges take place at close TL> range, without anyone getting hit for an insanely large number TL> of rounds fired. That's isn't very exciting to watch in a TL> theater, either, since you are really waiting for Mel Gibson TL> to shoot the thugs in a subplot, and then get back onto the TL> main story line... I cannot remember when a movie ever well represented real life. And I hope they never do, that would be boring. Isn't always fun to see how some white guy can simultaneously take on couple Ninjas? -- Best regards, Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message