Mike G wrote:

In article 1111736083.af4857891b0ce7311315567dd6261fe2@teran ews,
says...
So when say two robbers, with a grown knife between their teeth, row
to your boat, you'd just shoot them by surprise instead of giving them
other thoughts by letting them take a look at your 12 ga.?
The term "warning shot" isn't in your vocabulary?



You've either have to be kidding or have watched way too much Mr.
Roger's neighborhood.

Along with the knife in the teeth maybe they will have a hook for a left
hand.

Does the term "AK47" ring any bells?

Mike,

Take a look at the message I responded to. I just tried to picture a
hypothetical situation for sake of argument. I see no need to
ridiculize it, perhaps you could try to add something of value to the
discussion...

But I must say this thread is getting more and more informative... LOL

To me it looks like _some_ of the posters in favor of having a weapon
on board are incapable of proper reading, lack _any_ sensible empathy
or even the slightest bit of attention for the content of the
arguments they read, are agressively tense and trigger happy...
Hmm, what is that smell... fear ? xenophoby ? Anyway, it explains to
me to some extent the at times very uptight discussions typical for
this subject.