[geeks] FW: [rescue] UPS Recommendation

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

> Actually, you are wrong.

Thanks... how?

> Please don't try and say what a gun owner might do as a course of action.

Hum you have a going pointing at your face, you have been surprised. What
do you do? I seem to appreciate my life far more than a lousy bunch of
dollars.

>  You've already established you're scared of guns,

Having respect for guns is not the same as being scared of them, I think I
have stablished before that I may have far more experience with guns than
anyone else in this list.

Respect != fear.

> so your supposition of what someone who isn't scared of guns would do
> is...invalid, frankly.

Your point rests on my being afraid of guns, which I have already told you
I am not.

> My training tells me exactly what I would do, and yes, it involves
> exchange of fire.

Well except in that case, there is exchange of fire, problem is that it
is in only one direction: His gun -> Your face. :) Unless your training
advocates suicide, in which case... go ahead.

> > We can make all the made up scenarios you want. I believe guns are for
> > the
> > most part a psychological safety resort, whether or not those guns make
> > you any safer in reality is debatable.
> >
>
> Aside from safety of whatever from whatever, SHOOTING GUNS IS FUN,
> DAMMIT!!
> </joke></failed attempt at levity></blah>

On that part you are 100% right :). In less than a month I will have my
reserve refresh course, and I will be in the ol' world shooting real guns:
G36!!! yiahh!