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When faced with questions like this, it is best to follow the advice
of confucious:

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's
mouth and remove all doubts.

Questions like this benefit nobody.

How right!

May I carry a sword? Saber? Scimitar? Or better, a cutlass?

May I carry a sword? Saber? Scimitar? Or better, a cutlass?

There's a great button I saw in a catalog:

"When guns are outlawed...
Can we use swords?"

You know, the difference between citizen and subject
often pivots on the question of weapon possession.

--
John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines soup at tampabay dot rr dot com
"Grace is sufficient so Joy was let go." - Heather L. Campbell
"Faith manages ... even though she didn't get promoted" - me
Why OS X? Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows

When faced with questions like this, it is best to follow the advice
of confucious:

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's
mouth and remove all doubts.

I believe that this quote came from Samuel Johnson.

But as Confucious actually said:
" To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true
knowledge."

"Dan Best" wrote in message
...
You know, it's funny. This question comes up all the time on the net, but
rarely, if ever, out here where people are actually doing it (we are about
to leave La Paz for points south). I can't remember the last time the
guns topic came up while talking with other cruisers. The sense I get is
that very few are actually carrying guns.
- Dan

Very few admit it. While cruising a couple of years ago, I was amazed
how many carried guns aboard. Probably better than 50% of the folks
I talked to about such things.

Doug
s/v Callista


Spam Fighter wrote:

Hi,

We are working on a Power Squadron study of the "cruising lifestyle". We
need estimates of the absolute number and percentages of cruising boats
carrying weapons. That is firearms, not flare pistols, starter pistols,
sling shots or spear guns.

We are not interested in the debate of whether or not to carry weapons,
or why cruisers carry.
We wish to estimate the numbers that have chosen to and actually possess
and carry while cruising, what they carry and where they go.

We would like to break it down by:

A - TYPE
1. hand gun
2. shot gun
3. rifle
4. line-throwing gun (safety equipment)
5. assault 6. cruiser grip, short barrel, large bore, home security
weapons
7. other

B - MARINIZED (special finish, stainless steel)
1. yes
2. no

B - QUANTITY + CALIBER OF EACH WEAPON

C - TYPE AND AMOUNT OF AMMUNITION CARRIED (mushroom, hollow point, slug,
buck shot)

D - HOW STORED

E - CRUISING GROUNDS
1. America
2. Bahamas
3. Mexico
4. Canada
5. Central America
6. South America
7. Pacific Countries
8. Australia
9. Indian Ocean
10. Africa
11. Northern Europe
12. Mediterranean

Is anyone aware of any similar studies? Any thoughts on how to collect
this data?

We suspect the numbers are very low but have been asked to find some data
to support this conclusion.

Thanks.

Bob

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:49:39 -0500, "Doug Dotson"
dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote:

When faced with questions like this, it is best to follow the advice
of confucious:

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's
mouth and remove all doubts.

I believe that this quote came from Samuel Johnson.

But as Confucious actually said:
" To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true
knowledge."

I bow to your wisdom. Where I read the quote it was attributed to
Confucious
Weebles Wobble
(but they don't fall down)

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:38:03 -0500, Spam Fighter
wrote:

Hi,

We are working on a Power Squadron study of the "cruising lifestyle". We
need estimates of the absolute number and percentages of cruising boats
carrying weapons. That is firearms, not flare pistols, starter pistols,
sling shots or spear guns.

We are not interested in the debate of whether or not to carry weapons,
or why cruisers carry.

We wish to estimate the numbers that have chosen to and actually possess
and carry while cruising, what they carry and where they go.

We would like to break it down by:

A - TYPE
1. hand gun
2. shot gun
3. rifle
4. line-throwing gun (safety equipment)
5. assault
6. cruiser grip, short barrel, large bore, home security weapons
7. other

B - MARINIZED (special finish, stainless steel)
1. yes
2. no

B - QUANTITY + CALIBER OF EACH WEAPON

C - TYPE AND AMOUNT OF AMMUNITION CARRIED (mushroom, hollow point, slug,
buck shot)

D - HOW STORED

E - CRUISING GROUNDS
1. America
2. Bahamas
3. Mexico
4. Canada
5. Central America
6. South America
7. Pacific Countries
8. Australia
9. Indian Ocean
10. Africa
11. Northern Europe
12. Mediterranean

Is anyone aware of any similar studies?

Any thoughts on how to collect this data?

We suspect the numbers are very low but have been asked to find some data
to support this conclusion.

Thanks.

Bob


You ARE joking? Right?

How about 4 lb swivel guns fore and aft and 6 pounders at the rail?
"Gogarty" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...


When faced with questions like this, it is best to follow the advice
of confucious:

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's
mouth and remove all doubts.

Questions like this benefit nobody.

How right!

May I carry a sword? Saber? Scimitar? Or better, a cutlass?

wrote in message
...
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:49:39 -0500, "Doug Dotson"
dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote:

When faced with questions like this, it is best to follow the advice
of confucious:

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's
mouth and remove all doubts.

I believe that this quote came from Samuel Johnson.

But as Confucious actually said:
" To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true
knowledge."

I bow to your wisdom. Where I read the quote it was attributed to
Confucious
Weebles Wobble
(but they don't fall down)

As Confucious also said:

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing
another mistake.

Spam Fighter wrote:

Hi,

We are working on a Power Squadron study of the "cruising lifestyle". We
need estimates of the absolute number and percentages of cruising boats
carrying weapons. That is firearms, not flare pistols, starter pistols,
sling shots or spear guns.

Dunno about you, but if someone points a flare pistol at me, they have
my _undivided_ attention.

regards,
CrazyCam

"WaIIy" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:52:47 -0500, "Doug Dotson"
dougdotson@NOSPAMcablespeedNOSPAMcom wrote:

"Dan Best" wrote in message
...
You know, it's funny. This question comes up all the time on the net,
but
rarely, if ever, out here where people are actually doing it (we are
about
to leave La Paz for points south). I can't remember the last time the
guns topic came up while talking with other cruisers. The sense I get
is
that very few are actually carrying guns.
- Dan

Very few admit it. While cruising a couple of years ago, I was amazed
how many carried guns aboard. Probably better than 50% of the folks
I talked to about such things.

Doug
s/v Callista

idiot

To borrow a comment from another thread:

It is better to be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all
doubt.
--Samuel Johnson.

Thank you for oping your mouth and contributing nothing.

Doug
s/v Callista