[geeks] Re: Gun Control

[Thomas Gallaway]

Here is what I think. First of all I am 100% strictly against guns. I 
live
in the usa and I know stuff is beeing handled the wrong way. I know
you can own guns in germany too if you have a license as a hunter
and I know if you want to buy a gun you could buy one in germany
no matter what. Now the question is are they just a bit smarter or why
are there less gun related crimes than in the USA.

Also I think that guns itselfe build up bad charma. If you own a gun
you more likely get (or want??) into a situation to make use of it. Also
if you have a gun the chances are 50% that if the person doing harm
to you can shoot you too. So why take the 50% chance. If the other
person does see you have a gun he for sure will shoot.

But I guess it will just take a few more decades until people wake up.
Back when I was still living in germany I was never scared of beeing
at the wrong place. Here I always have this thought in the back of my
head that if I say something wrong to somebody, and he has a gun,
he might shoot me. Why can I not have peace in my mind?

By the way I say this cause I had a crazy coworker at work point a gun
at my head cause he wanted to show how cool his gun is. Not to
mention that was his last day at work. I told my boss I would quit if
he would not fire him. From that day on I was scared to go to my car
after work...


On Dec 7, 2003, at 6:25 PM, Mike Meredith wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 17:02:13 -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Theoretical?
>
> Well, I doubt anyone is going to offer me the job of making guns in the
> US illegal anytime soon.
>
>> The gun control lobby is already trying all of these and more.  They
>> also picked up on a few tricks you missed.
>
> I should hope so ... however dumb they might be, they've been thinking
> about it more than me.
>
>> Violent criminals generally aren't rocket scientists, but they're
>> bright enough to prefer unarmed victims, as I believe the UK is now
>> discovering.
>
> Whilst crime in which guns are involved is increasing in the UK, it is
> still very rare ... for example in 1999, gun deaths were allegedly
> slightly more than a 1/40 of the level in the US. "Armed" robbery
> figures also include things like wooden "guns" being used to hold up
> banks.
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