How old is old enough to be home alone?

I certainly was not the only kid in the naborhood with guns.
Thay had more than I did; at the beginning, anyway.

Christ kids with guns, I cant get over it.

We practiced at the YMCA. Schools had competitive rifle teams.

How ofen do we see photographic news coverage of the Middle East,
wherein Moslems, very little above the age of babies, have AK-47s ?
Yet have u ever read of any Moslems of any age accused of
opening up on EACH OTHER?? Thay appear to be well armed
and safe, at least from one another. Yes ?

I understand that there was very prevalent freedom
to keep and bear arms among Englishmen until around 1920,
that a gentleman woud take his revolver along with him before leaving home,
the same as he brought along his pocket watch. Yes ?

Incidentally , my grandfather was from a place called Devonshire, England.

I certainly was not the only kid in the naborhood with guns.
Thay had more than I did; at the beginning, anyway.

Christ kids with guns, I cant get over it.

We practiced at the YMCA. Schools had competitive rifle teams.

This shows respect towards guns.

How ofen do we see photographic news coverage of the Middle East,
wherein Moslems, very little above the age of babies, have AK-47s ?
Yet have u ever read of any Moslems of any age accused of
opening up on EACH OTHER?? Thay appear to be well armed
and safe, at least from one another. Yes ?

Yes. Why have the risk anyway, someone could get killed.

I like guns in that it's cool to play the wii using a simulated gun,
I thrash those zombies I can tell you. What worries me is when
the gun is in the hands of an idiot, an irresponsible div that kills
innocent people, like your robber for instance, he could've missed
and killed you and some people do kill with guns to rob.

I understand that there was very prevalent freedom
to keep and bear arms among Englishmen until around 1920,
that a gentleman woud take his revolver along with him before leaving home,
the same as he brought along his pocket watch. Yes ?

I have no idea, your history is better than mine. I know he's a right to arm himself,
like I said it's the irresponsible that bothers/scares me.

Incidentally, my grandfather was from a place called Devonshire, England.

Well that is where I was brought up, I don't live there now.
Devon is a county in the south of England and I lived in Plymouth,
a city in Devon. Well well well, we could be related!

But I doubt it. Do you know which part of Devonshire he was from, what town or city?
It's beautiful down there and by the sea which I love and miss.

If criminals are willing to ignore the laws against ROBBERY;
if criminals are willing to disregard the laws against MURDER,
HOW can we convince them to OBAY "gun control" laws ?

Well, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes in the 1800s, including accounts
of Holmes & of Dr. Watson thinking nothing of including their revolvers
among their daily equipment. Maybe that 's indicative.

Incidentally , my grandfather was from a place called Devonshire, England.

Well that is where I was brought up, I don't live there now.
Devon is a county in the south of England and I lived in Plymouth,
a city in Devon. Well well well, we could be related!

Yes; we must be.

But I doubt it. Do you know which part of Devonshire he was from, what town or city?
It's beautiful down there and by the sea which I love and miss.

Someone said that it has good strawberry shortcake in it.

If criminals are willing to ignore the laws against ROBBERY;
if criminals are willing to disregard the laws against MURDER,
HOW can we convince them to OBAY "gun control" laws ?

Well put, can't argue with that except my point wasn't really about criminals disobeying gun laws, my point is the easy access to guns thus criminals kill innocent people with, your robber is an example, we don't hear of things like that happening everyday in the UK, although there is an underground market for guns and my fear is gun crime will be common as in the US.

Well, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes in the 1800s, including accounts
of Holmes & of Dr. Watson thinking nothing of including their revolvers
among their daily equipment. Maybe that 's indicative.

Indicative of what? Sherlock Holmes is fictional written about thrilling detective stories.

My point is not everyone respects guns and innocent victims die everyday, I don't have a problem with guns themselves, it's some of the looneys behind them that scare me. Please don't say shootings are common in the US?

Incidentally , my grandfather was from a place called Devonshire, England.

Well that is where I was brought up, I don't live there now.
Devon is a county in the south of England and I lived in Plymouth,
a city in Devon. Well well well, we could be related!

Yes; we must be.

But I doubt it. Do you know which part of Devonshire he was from, what town or city?
It's beautiful down there and by the sea which I love and miss.

No; I did not even know that it HAS towns n cities in it.
Someone said that it has good strawberry shortcake in it.

Well Devon is famous for it's clotted cream,
it's really thick and is often eaten with jam spread on scones,
traditional is that. I love it.

Guns are like seatbelts; valuable emergency equipment:
if that is not conveniently easy for potential future victims to use,
then thay will not use it, to their detriment: loss of life.

In America, we have the U.S. Dept. of Labor,
including its Occupational Safety and Health Administraton
(its called O.S.H.A.) whose mission it is to make workplaces safer.
Gun control (i.e., discriminatory licenusure of the right to defend your life)
is O.S.H.A. for violent criminals, protecting them on-the-job
from the defenses of their victims.

Indicative of the norm of how gentlemen dressed and prepared to defend themselves
(if necessary) in public in the 1800s and early 1900s.

My point is not everyone respects guns and innocent victims die everyday, I don't have a problem with guns themselves, it's some of the looneys behind them that scare me. Please don't say shootings are common in the US?

Efforts to disarm criminals are effective only in disarming future victims,
thereby giving criminals a better incentive, a fringe benefit.

Yes; I recognize the name.
I 've never had it. I don 't believe that we have that in America.

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