[geeks] FW: [rescue] UPS Recommendation

[nick at snowman.net]

Bah, get back to us when you're going to get the G4 (IIRC, caseless ammo
rifle, Sweet, not in production though, for reasons I don't quite
understand)
	Nick

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:

> > 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!
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