OT: Americans love their guns

[Steve Lamb]

On 2003-09-06, Bengt Richter <bokr at oz.net> wrote:
> Well, when someone "loses it" and ignorantly mistakes you for the
> devil, what would you rather see in their hand, a cocked "45" or a
> banana?

    No, that isn't the question.  The question is when someone breaks
into my home which do I want more in my hand, a .45 (is a caliber, not a
quote) or a banana.  i

    Do this simple test.  Get an egg timer (or any other timing device).
Now set it to 4, maybe 5 minutes.  Now lock yourself in the closet.
While there imagine dying.  Imagine someone gutting you.  Imagine
someone shooting you in the fact, your brains leaking out.  Imagine the
last vision you have is being raped or someone you loved being raped.
If you have kids imagine them having their arms broken, guts torn apart,
necks snapped.  Go ahead.  Do it.  Once you done it answer me this one
question:

    In those 4 minutes in that closet, hiding, scared, alone, praying
for someone to come to save you how does legislation protect you and
your loved ones from violence?  In that time between you *MAYBE* getting
a call to the police and them actually arriving when you could die which
would you rather do, fight or die?  

    What you've all missed is that violence still happens.  The
criminals who are so willing to rape, steal, break-in, murder and in
general be far more unpleasant as the 2nd paragraph of this message
aren't going to suddenly stop and say, "Hey, you know, owning a gun is
ILLEGAL, I shouldn't do that while killing, raping, stealing and being
an all around naughty person!"

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