From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 26 10: 2:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2BAF37B62A for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 10:02:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (rh29.bfm.org [216.127.220.222]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:03:18 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000326120230.00a6dd90@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:02:30 -0600 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: Guns and freedom [Was: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD"] In-Reply-To: <20000326131639.E234@parish> References: <20000326015310.A846@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <20000325104927.B234@parish> <20000325231656.E234@parish> <20000326015310.A846@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 13:16 26-03-2000 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: >> No. I don't. No. But the last one is a good point. If you own a gun, >> you are more likely to be killed by it than any other. > >Can you elaborate? Is this due to accidently shooting yourself or >being shot by someone else using your gun? I believe he was referring to the occurence of people being killed by their own gun when an attacker takes the gun away from them, and then shoots them. Owning a gun without being properly trained in its use is worse than not owning a gun at all. Proper training includes learning about gun retention. It also includes learning that you must never ever draw a gun unless you are ready and willing to pull the trigger. A person who draws a gun but is not mentally ready to shoot and KILL, is committing a suicide. Such a person has a false sense of security. They may be pointing a gun at the attacker, they may be saying don't move or I'll shoot, but their body language shows they would not shoot. Many don't even know to hold the gun properly. Cheers, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message