On 23/01/2013 7:47 PM, Pete C. wrote:
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>>>
>>> I remember it as happening a few years ago, but as you say - if cops
>>> ended up shooting each other, how can we expect better results from
>>> the general gun toting public?
>>>
>>
>> You end up with people accidentally shooting a daughter who is playing a
>> joke on her father, a nine year old dressed up as a skunk at Halloween
>> getting shot by an idiot uncle,
>
> Yep, idiots do stupid things, and they do them with or without firearms.
> Would you prefer those incidents to be someone getting clubbed to death
> with a baseball bat? Would that make you feel better that there was no
> evil gun involved?

Sometimes people say stupid things too. While I have read and heard of a
number of accidentally shootings and mass shootings, I honestly don't
recall any news articles about accidental clubbings or multiple clubbing
deaths.

>
>> a guy shooting to escaping burglars at a
>> neighbour's castle... despite being told by the cops not to shoot them,
>> lost foreign students being shot when going to the wrong house for a
>> party....
>
> To be clear, 911 operators are not cops and have no authority to tell
> the person on the phone to do anything.


Yes....and?