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   XPost: talk.politics.guns   
   From: user@domain.invalid   
      
   On 29/05/2013 4:03 AM, RD Sandman wrote:   
   > keithr  wrote in news:b0jdaqFq2edU1   
   > @mid.individual.net:   
   >   
   >> On 26/05/2013 1:55 AM, Bert wrote:   
   >>> In news:b08t83FghsiU1@mid.individual.net keithr    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> The danger is overstated by most Americans, while in the States I was   
   >>>> warned several times that places the I was planning to go to were   
   >>>> dangerous, but in the event, the places proved to be perfectly safe.   
   >>>   
   >>> Can I take it that you don't wear a seat belt when driving and have no   
   >>> smoke detectors or fire extinguishers in your home?   
   >>>   
   >>> Since you haven't been killed in an car accident or house fire, these   
   >>> dangers are obviously overstated, and they're prefectly safe.   
   >>>   
   >> The chances of being hit by an incompetent driver or a frying pan   
   >> catching fire are much higher than being attacked. I have been involved   
   >> in accidents when some-one else screwed up, but so far, in a long life,   
   >> I have yet to be attacked or have the kitchen catch fire.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I carry a gun for one reason and one reason only.  If a situation arises   
   > (and I have been there, done that) I have at least one option you do not.   
   >   
   It is a situation that is highly unlikely to happen to me so I don't   
   feel the need to protect myself against it by carrying a gun. You   
   obviously live in a far more violent society than me.   
      
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