From: kiwi@NOSPAMcogeco.ca   
      
   Have you ever driven a car? Every time you exceed the speed limit you are   
   breaking the law and put li es in jeapordy. I've NEVER broken the law with a   
   firearm, who's the criminal?   
    Vehicles kill and threaten many more people every day than we responsible   
   gun owners,or should I say "people who drive a vehicle and break the law   
   kill and threaten, NOT the vehicle". We have more to fear from people like   
   you behind the wheel of a car than someone with a firearm. Just how many   
   times a day are you, or anyone you know, direectly threatened by someone   
   with a firearm? You are now going to clasify someone, no, me, as a criminal   
   because of my potential for breaking the law? That's exactly what you just   
   did. On the other hand, if you have driven a car, you HAVE broken the law,   
   and yet you contend I have somehow broken the law because I've expressed my   
   feelings of sadness and disappointment over some negative events that are   
   affecting my life at the moment?   
   That in itself, sir, is practically border line criminal. Ignorant lowlife.   
   Larry   
      
   "Some Guy"  wrote in message news:47003E47.7717BC47@Guy.com...   
   > Full-quoting, top-posting Gordon wrote:   
   >   
   >> Do you own a knife? You know a carving knife or cleaver. Should   
   >> everyone around you fear you? A knife can be as dangers as a gun.   
   >   
   > Guns kill at a distance.  Guns can kill or injure children or kids who   
   > happen to find and pick them up.  If I were confronted with someone   
   > who was mentally unstable, or on drugs, or distraught, depressed,   
   > angry, drunk, or any number of other conditions - if I were confronted   
   > with someone in that state and could choose if they had a gun or a   
   > knife, I'll take the knife any day.   
   >   
   > In the current landscape of consumer product, firearms stand   
   > relatively alone as being inherently dangerous by design.  If guns   
   > were invented tommorrow as a consumer product, they would not pass   
   > product safety standards and would not be allowed for sale.   
   >   
   > Lawn darts are no longer sold for that reason.   
   >   
   > But firearms, like cigarrettes, are legacy products that have been   
   > available in our society for hundreds of years.  If they didn't have   
   > that history, if they were invented tommorrow, they wouldn't be   
   > allowed to be sold as consumer products for obvious reasons.   
   >   
   >> Yes I believe Canada should be a gun fire country right down to   
   >> the police.   
   >   
   > Nice grammar.   
   >   
   >> If you strongly believe Larry should not have a gun then work   
   >> to changes the laws.   
   >   
   > By the sounds of his condition and situation, he might very well be in   
   > violation of some current firearms laws if he does own a gun, and may   
   > already legally not qualify to obtain, own or use one.   
      
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