From: Giu1i0 Pri5c0 (gpmap@runbox.com)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 03:08:57 MDT
Mike, please correct me if I am wrong. From your text I infer that the majority of issues that you consider really important, are those related to whether or not you can carry a gun.
I did not change the title because I do not want to start a new gun thread, but I find difficult to understand why you and many others make a big issue of this.
If I had to spend time in a really dangerous place, and if no other kind of protection is in place, of course I would wish to carry a gun, perhaps even if this is not allowed by the law. But the meaning I attribute to this sentence is not different from the meaning I attribute to "If I had to spend time in a place where it is raining, and if no other kind of protection is in place, of course I would wish to carry a umbrella, perhaps even if this is not allowed by the law". I do not consider umbrellas and guns as defining aspects of my worldview.
> In 1993, gun owners were beeing assassinated and torched in their homes
> for exercising their constitutional rights here in the US. Of course I
> feel safer today than I did then.
> In 1983, less than a dozen states in the US had 'shall issue' concealed
> carry permit laws. Today 35 states have such laws or require no permit
> at all to do so. Of course I feel safer today than I did then.
> The major threats to my continued existence/lifestyle are:
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