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>Since when do numbers matter in this society? Is not *each individual's* >life as important as any other's? I don't care if an idiot kills 30 >people, or 1 person. I care more if 30 get killed over one… The chances of survivng a bad situation are MUCH higher if theere is only a knife, baseball bat, or whatever, over a guy that has a fully auto AK47. That's reason enough for me to want to limit the latter. >I want the idiot stopped in case the 1, or one of the 30, is me. True, same here. But in the case of the guy that kills 30 with a auto gun, if we make it that much harder to get a gun like that, maybe they'll have time to think about what they're doing. > It's the idiocy, not the weapon. The baseball bat is derived from the >club, the *first* weapon, and it's intent was very much to kill. > Also, an idiot could kill 30 people with a cap and ball remington >pistol, provided he carred spare, charged cylinders (5 of them, to be >exact). A cap and ball pistol shoots only slightly slower than an >semi-auto pistol. Yep, but that doesn't really compare with an uzzi, does it. >If the 30 people in that crowded store are all armed themselves, the >chances of the idiot not being able to kill anyone, let alone all 30 go >to infinity, compared to the chances if no-one is armed. And how many innocent other people get killed in the gun battle? If things comes come down to everyone having a gun, and shootouts are commonplace, I don't even want to be around any more. I know, some places are getting this bad, but not here. Bob Comer Cheyenne, Wyoming U.S.A.