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Re: GUN CONTROL*NO LBC CONTENT* DELETE NOW IF NOT INTERESTED

To: RBHouston@aol.com, jboatri@emory.edu
Subject: Re: GUN CONTROL*NO LBC CONTENT* DELETE NOW IF NOT INTERESTED
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:15:23 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
THanks RB! Well Jeff...I think a good point has been
made. I can still dig up some of the instances you
desire but I think RB has a list he gets every month
as well.

Dan (Nothing personal Jeff)

--- RBHouston@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 07/12/2000 1:08:06 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time, 
> jboatri@emory.edu writes:
> 
> << OK, Dan, surprise us. How about some real data on
> either subject:
>  
>  (1) How many successful uses of a firearm for
> personal defense occur 
>  in your city/county/state/country (any one will do)
> in the past 
>  year/decade/century (any one will do)?
>  
>  (2) How many times did these go unreported in the
> press?
>  
>  Educate us. >>
> 
> 
> Let me try, let me try (put me in coach!)...
> 
> Just a week or so ago (do I get points off for not
> knowing the exact date?) a 
> less than ideal citizen type jumps the fence at a
> local (El Paso, TX) 
> doctor's home.  He approaches a contractor working
> in the guys yard with his 
> hand in his shirt, announces that he has a gun and
> forces the guy into the 
> house.  He gathers up the good Dr., the contractor,
> and the Dr.'s family 
> including teen age children, and has them kneel on
> the kitchen floor.  Not a 
> pretty scenario.
> 
> Then, being an obvious Rhodes scholar type the
> "gunman" asks the Dr. to go 
> and get him some clean clothes to change into.  The
> Dr. returned with the 
> clothes, and a handgun, and ended the hostage
> situation with two shots to the 
> fellows chest.
> 
> It turned out he actually had no gun, and I am sure
> the mental anguish the 
> Dr. is going through right now is tremendous and
> only secondary to that he 
> was suffering with his family on their knees in the
> kitchen.  HE DID THE 
> RIGHT THING.  There were only two ways the situation
> could have turned out 
> otherwise.  The bad guy could have changed clothes,
> said thank  you, and left 
> peacably, or he could have killed them all.  Would
> you bet your childrens 
> life on an unbalanced stanger making the right
> decision?
> 
> This was in the paper, locally, because it was good
> news.  Did anyone outside 
> this area read about it?  I'd be surprised.  I get a
> monthly magazine that 
> lists a page full of such successful defenses in
> each issue, but none ever 
> make national news.  BUT, let anyone be killed in an
> accident, or a child be 
> killed by any type of gun in under any circumstance
> in the US and it will 
> make page one in a great deal of newspapers.  I'm
> not minimizing the 
> importance or tragedy of a child's death, but noting
> that stories that lend 
> themselves to the anti-gun movement get much more
> play than those that would 
> support a pro-armed citizen movement.
> 
> Like I said, did anyone read about the Dr. saving
> his family's lives?  Bet 
> you all read about the child in Deming, NM that took
> a gun to school and shot 
> another child.  
> 
> Again, accidental, or intentional, or criminal
> deaths of innocents by gunshot 
> are despicable and we should do everything in our
> power to stop them.  But    
> trying to get rid of an inanimate object to solve
> people problems is like 
> banning cars to stop drunk drivers.
> 
> RH...can you tell how I really feel?


=====
Dan Dwelley
77 Midget
Alexandria, Va.

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