From:	Lloyd Vance ljvance@*******.edu
Subject:	Value and so on....
Date:	Fri, 16 Jul 1999 11:50:46

<snip careless judgement and reaction to it>

> You obvioulsy don't know any NRA members, you would relise that we are not
>"trigger happy", if by that term, you mean that we would WANT to shoot
>someone. I've come closer to taking a life in an accident (on job) than I
>care to think about, and I still wake up in a cold sweat. I have every
>intention of allowing a someone in a defensive situation the chance to turn
>and run, unless my life is in clear and present threat, or the lives of
>those I am a gaurdian of. After that, I fully expect to placed on a
>suicide watch for a couple weeks. 99% of the gun owners I know are in the
>same boat, while the rest got to the point while they were in the service
>that a dead body was a dead body.
>CyberRaven

I, while not an NRA member, agree with CR. I don't own guns so that I can
go kill people at any chance I get. I also haven't been doing martial arts
for the past sixteen years so I could beat people up. You have these
things/abilities so that you never have to use them. I own a gun, living
in fear of the day I _have_ to use it. Not _get_ to. I go to the practice
range and put up with the redneck jackasses because I want to be able to
shoot straight when I have to.

I never want to have to hurt someone. I got beat up enough as a kid (which
is why my father signed me up for my first Tae Kwon Do class) to know that
it really hurts physically and mentally to get beaten. I also know what it
does to people to lose someone violently (also my father).

I'm just stacking the deck.

The Hamm
aka Lloyd Vance