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A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 3/8/05 4:07 PM:

A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

in article , Scott Weiser at
wrote on 3/8/05 12:39 AM:

A Usenet persona calling itself KMAN wrote:

Leave it to Fox to find someone who could turn a multiple victim public
shooting stemming from a custody dispute resulting in the murder of two
people and the wounding of four others into a pro-gun piece of claptrap.

Well, a gun started it, and guns were the only thing that stopped it. And
it's clear that Wilson saved lives by distracting the shooter, at the cost
of his own life.

Only a complete asshole would denigrate this bravery and sacrifice.

Which would be, evidently, you.

The asshole(s) are those who are capable of such bizarre thinking as to turn
that incident into a pro-gun platform. Amazing.

And yet you cannot refute the inescapable fact that without guns, nobody
would have been able to stop the killer.

Guns are merely inanimate objects
and tools that can be used for both good and ill. Most of the time, they are
used for good. Only relatively rarely are they used for ill.

They are never used for good. They are only used for different degrees of
ill.

What a remarkably ignorant statement. The vast majority of the time, guns
are used to provide pleasure, and the only thing "harmed" is a piece of
paper or a tin can.

But your assertion utterly ignores the obvious fact that guns can be, and
very frequently are used to protect the innocent against violent attack.
That you would classify self-defense as a "degree of ill" indicates that you
have lost touch with reality.

Take a pill.

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