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From: me4guns@verizon.removeme.this2.nospam.net
"keithr" wrote in message
news:b0m5olFeckkU1@mid.individual.net...
> 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.
http://www.wnd.com/2001/03/8340/
It's all about feelings....Nothing more than feelings.....
Ah, the preception of safety. So warm, so comforting, so much bullshit.
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