Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: More Gun Control
From: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:45:57 GMT
Reply-To: gcombs@parsifal.umkc.edu (Gerald Combs)
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In article <3Tpks*7-0@prolix.apana.org.au>, dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.222721.22480@igor.tamri.com>, Don Baldwin writes:
>
>> In article <fB8js*xZ0@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au
>> (Andrew Clayton) writes:
>
>> >> All the bravado you can muster in words or body will do nothing to
>> >> stop a machete wielding crack addict.  Most of the time, they ignore
>> >> guns pointed at them
>> >
>> >i.e. be an accident waiting to happen.
>> 
>> Not necessarily.  For example, one could keep a loaded double action revolver,
>> with a trigger lock BEHIND the trigger.  No way to fire it without removing
>
>"Hang on a minute, Mr Masked Attacker, I just need to find my
>keys, get them out, and unlock the trigger lock on my
>double-action revolver, and then I'm going to blow you away. Ta."
>
>Sure, Don. This is just so utterly and totally believable. 

  Scene #1:  The tent that my grandmother and grandfather were living in 
around 1921.  My grandfather was away at work.  My grandmother was in the 
tent.  An Aboriginal American Gentleman (injun) approached the tent, wanting 
whiskey.  My grandmother told the AAG that the tent he was looking for was a
few hundred yards down the road, but he didn't believe her.  She got out her 
rifle and told him to leave.  He didn't.  Instead, he hid behind a tree and 
taunted her.  She shot him in the leg.  He left.

  Scene #2:  The trailer in Texas my uncle has been living in for the past
decade or so.  Inside the trailer were my uncle, his two stepsons, one of 
their wives, and a friend of theirs.  For the previous seven years, my uncle 
and his wife had supported the two stepsons.  In return, they harassed my
uncle (beating him up once), cultivated a drug habit, and the eldest stepson 
had recently been brought up on charges for molesting his 9-year-old daughter.  On this 
On this particular day, the two stepsons told my uncle in no uncertain terms
that they were going to beat him again.  He got out his pistol.  After a few 
minutes of arguing, they started pushing him around.  He shot one in the neck 
and one in the chest.  They both died.

  In both of these situations, there was a difference of at least a few 
minutes between the time that my relative picked up the gun and the time that
he or she fired - this is plenty of time to remove a trigger lock.  I suspect
that this is the case in most situations of this type.  I'd hate to see what
would have happened if they hadn't had a gun.  Grandma probably wouldn't have
been hurt, but my uncle Wayne would probably be dead now.  I wonder what 
would have happened to Dac.

  !Peeve: My grandma.  It's hard to beleive that such a sweet little 96 year
old woman not only shot a man once, but the also beat a would-be horse thief
with a horse whip (she was in the buggy at the time) until he fell off the
horse.


- Gerald Combs
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