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Offline Pooh21

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« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2006, 01:00:16 PM »
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Yeah...one question...what of all the missed shots?
they all hit Little Johnny the 3 year old choirboy who was helping a little old lady and 3 blind puppys across the street
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« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2006, 01:04:09 PM »
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Yeah...one question...what of all the missed shots?


Too me it's just a technical detail. People need to practice more. If five where fired, all five shots should have hit. Three in a heart and two between the eyes.

It seems excessive though, two taps should do it.
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« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2006, 01:09:25 PM »
I'll respectively disagree on the excessive comment.  If I feel my family is threatened, I'd rather fire two shots too many at the attacker than two shots too few.
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« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2006, 01:30:24 PM »
I read this in the paper this morning.  A robber broke into a house with 3 occupants, and then he accidentally shot himself dead.
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« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2006, 01:41:19 PM »
We should not have to lie about it. Breaking into someone's house is a capital offense. We should be open about it, and be able to exercise our right to be safe, without being exposed to the fear of undeserved punishment.

But, the criminal loving libs would not have, would they.
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« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2006, 01:53:02 PM »
One close to home

It's not near my neighborhood, but I have a friend who bought a fixer-uper pretty close to where that took place.
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« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2006, 01:53:51 PM »
missed shots?   the police are far more likely to have a bunch of stray rounds flying about where people can get hit.

In a home... most misses would hit something to stop or slow down the round... even so... it is worth the risk...  one should be aware of the direction one is firing tho and endever to hit the target.

Angus...  We hear about the bad guys using guns all the time here... I doubt that any case of a bad guy using a gun for something bad EVER goes unreported unless two bad guys are involved and no one sees it.

The point behind the series is that citizens using firearms to protect themselves or others goes unreported... the FBI claims that firearms are used 1.5 million or more times a year to stop criminals sooooo...  it seems like a good thing to get some of the other side out there eh?

lazs
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« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2006, 01:58:26 PM »
yep nifty...  a 57 year old woman attacked in her home by a 29 year old mental case....

Now... some of the anti gun guys here say that a cricket paddle or a golf club is the perfect weapon and all anyone really needs...

How frigging selfish and ignorant of them.   This is a 57 year old woman who is alive today because she was allowed the tools to defend herself.

I would even go so far as to say that since harsher penalties for gun crime came out that it is more likely that the innocent will be armed while the thug is not...

The best of both worlds.

lazs
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« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2006, 05:20:37 PM »
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And yet we still are ranked #1.:p


In what? Crime? Murders? Firearm offences?

p.s. lazs I'm not antigun...for the USA, I'm just saying :)

The city in where I live for example, hasn't had a single murder for around 3 months, we thought we had one this week but it turned out the guy was drunk and fell off the wharf. I can only think of one significant firearm crime in the last 6 months (something that looked like a pistol used to hold up a money lending place).

FUBAR'd.
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« Reply #24 on: August 18, 2006, 08:35:35 PM »
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missed shots?   the police are far more likely to have a bunch of stray rounds flying about where people can get hit.

In a home... most misses would hit something to stop or slow down the round... even so... it is worth the risk...  one should be aware of the direction one is firing tho and endever to hit the target.

Angus...  We hear about the bad guys using guns all the time here... I doubt that any case of a bad guy using a gun for something bad EVER goes unreported unless two bad guys are involved and no one sees it.

The point behind the series is that citizens using firearms to protect themselves or others goes unreported... the FBI claims that firearms are used 1.5 million or more times a year to stop criminals sooooo...  it seems like a good thing to get some of the other side out there eh?

lazs


Do you have a comparison number?
and 1.5 million times seems sort of high...that would in my little old country mean that 1.500 crimes would need to be stopped with firearms to stick to the same percentage. Well, the percentage last year was nil, and actually, (depending a bit on how to define a crime, but say robbery, burglery, murder and rape) I doubt the total commited crime reached that.
Numbers suck.
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« Reply #25 on: August 18, 2006, 08:49:18 PM »
2 or 3?  Fark that, empty the clip

I just hope homeowners insurance covers up the cleanup.

Since my policy tries to dictate what pets I can have, I assume its a matter of time until they try to state which firearms I can own
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« Reply #26 on: August 18, 2006, 08:54:34 PM »
I thought being PNGed was a hint that flamebaiting trolls are not welcome.

- doesn't seem to be working out that way. :rolleyes:


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Edit: Quote removed, per Dago's good advise.
« Last Edit: August 18, 2006, 09:31:50 PM by Bronk »
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« Reply #27 on: August 18, 2006, 09:16:38 PM »
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I thought being PNGed was a hint that flamebaiting trolls are not welcome.

- doesn't seem to be working out that way. :rolleyes:


Bronk


Well dont quote the stupid jerk, it only keeps his crap on the board when Skuzzy boots him, again and again and again.
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« Reply #28 on: August 18, 2006, 09:25:46 PM »
Pass the info to Skuzzy and let him ban the new IP address for him.
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« Reply #29 on: August 18, 2006, 09:51:12 PM »
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Pass the info to Skuzzy and let him ban the new IP address for him.


Pathetic drunk, he must really be lacking a life to need to come back where he isnt wanted over and over.  He sure embarrasses his countrymen.
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