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Skriven 2005-09-21 10:52:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
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-=> Quoting Michiel Van Der Vlist to Roy Witt <=-

 MvdV>> One report I heard is that looters lifted all the handguns from
 MvdV>> Sears.
 
 > Not very likely.

 MVDV> Denial isn't a river in Egypt.

 MvdV>> My first thought was: that could not have happened if those weapons
 MvdV>> were not there to begin with. Over here you can not buy guns in a
 MvdV>> supermarket.

Guns in a *supermarket*???   Groceries, yes, guns, no.
 
 > First of all; Sears isn't a supermarket for firearms. In fact,
 > I don't recall seeing any firearms in a Sears store for quite some
 > time.

 MVDV> When was the last time you were in New Orlaens?
 
 > But, before you open your mouth with erroneous information; The
 > Federal gun laws in the US require each and every Federally
 > Licensed Gun Dealer to lock up his firearm inventory before closing.

 MVDV> And of course the looters respected the locks and made no attempt to
 MVDV> forcibly enter....

It would be a violation to steal guns ...
 
 > I would assume that happened at every gun store in NO, before
 > anyone evacuated.

 MVDV> ASS u me.
 
 > The requirements for the safes that they are to be held in are
 > such that no oridinary person could open them.

 MVDV> Under normal curcimstances.

 MVDV> That doesn't hold when you can take as much time as you need and ans
 MVDV> make as much noise as you want and no gueard or policeman comes to
 MVDV> disturb you because they all have left.
 
 > It would take a professional burgler or safe
 > cracker to do so.

 MVDV> To complete it before the police arrives to stop you. No factor is
 MVDV> there is no police any more.

 MvdV>> An armed society is a polite society? Didn't look that way...
 
 > It's true in Texas. Very friendly people here.

 MVDV> The people in Belgium are friendlt too. And they are not armed.
 
I'll bet the Belgians would be even *more* friendly if they were 
permitted concealed carry of guns as our law permits.  We are 
very, very friendly ...

 > Of course, the 'will issue concealed carry permits' law
 > didn't have anything to do with that. They were friendly
 > before that law was passed.

OK ... one nice thing of being in America is that one can think 
whatever one wishes ...

 MVDV> So no causal relationship bewteen politeness and being armed.

Concealed carry *does* help ... some people, of course, are 
*naturally* friendly (me, for example) while others' friendliness 
is based on fear of being shot.
 
 > But, you don't see many altercations on the freeways
 > like I've seen in California,

 MVDV> I have never ever seen a freeway altercation in my life. Of course I
 MVDV> never was in the USA...
 
More's the pity ... as they used to say ... [sigh] ...

 > What we have in NO are people who havn't seen any LEOs for
 > quite a few days and who knows what they were thinking when
 > they shot at authoritys.

 MVDV> Whatever the reasons, those pictures do not make a good impression on
 MVDV> the rest off the world.

Doesn't matter since the rest of the world seems to hate us 
*anyway* ...

... Déj… Flu:  Being sick and tired of being sick and tired

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