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From: steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer)
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Subject: Re: qubix!steven in Re: Re: Human Life vs. Property
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Date: Mon, 3-Oct-83 15:23:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  3 15:23:34 1983
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>  >From Steven Maurer -
>  					v
>  					v
>  	Scenario #3
>  
>  	Like John Wayne, you kick down the door!!  Gun blazing, you nail
>  	three - four - five - six times!!  He falls with a sicking thud.
>  	You slowly, cautiously, advance on the bleeding corpse.  Groping
>  	for the lights, you finally find them.  "He" is your son.
>  	Congradulations, chum, you just blew away your son.  Pretty good
>  	shot with that thing, now you wanna try for your head?

>  For the responsible gun owner, this is not a reasonable (i.e., impossi-
>  ble) scenario.  John Wayne's portrayals are pure fiction.  A responsible
>  gun owner doesn't shoot at anything until he is absolutely sure of what
>  he's shooting at.  This applies to hunting (don't shoot your hunting
>  partner), the target range (don't shoot at anything but your own target
>  in your own sights), or an intruder in your home.

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    The key word here is RESPONSIBLE.  A RESPONSIBLE gun owner, would of
course, not do that.   However, there are far too few RESPONSIBLE gun
owners, and far too many IRRESPONSIBLE ones.   This is why I favor heavy
restrictions on who can own a gun, what training should be manditory, and
what types of guns should be legal....

Steven Maurer