From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 29 15: 3:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from queasy.outpost.co.nz (outpost2.inspire.net.nz [203.96.157.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7EE937B67D for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:03:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crh@outpost.co.nz) Received: (qmail 46018 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2000 23:03:03 -0000 Received: from erstumper.outpost.co.nz (HELO outpost.co.nz) (192.168.1.7) by queasy.outpost.co.nz with SMTP; 29 Mar 2000 23:03:03 -0000 Message-ID: <38E28C78.AAD53DBE@outpost.co.nz> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:06:32 +1200 From: Craig Harding Organization: Outpost Digital Media Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and References: <200003291936.MAA23741@usr05.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > It's also a fact that most handgun echanges take place at close > range, without anyone getting hit for an insanely large number > of rounds fired. That's isn't very exciting to watch in a > theater, either, since you are really waiting for Mel Gibson > to shoot the thugs in a subplot, and then get back onto the > main story line... c.f. one of the first episodes of ER in the current series. Armed perp and security guard exchange fire in hospital corridor at around 15m range, both emptying magazines. Only injury is to the guard when he falls onto broken glass. So they do get it right (kind of), sometimes. Or Pulp Fiction, of course. -- C. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message