[Normy]

I'm probably a bit more vocal online that I should be. I should probably be more discrete about what I do for a living. I fly airplanes for a major overnight package delivery company.

"When it absolutely positively has to be there the next day...."

Yet, I just can't keep my mouth shut. That and I have a terrible temper; it has gotten me in trouble before [I'm banned on Rennlist, something I'm proud of~]

Yet I do think that my views on guns need to be advanced. I own several guns, including a Smith & Wesson handgun chambered in .40 S&W, and a MAK-90 semi-automatic assault rifle. The MAK-90 is a Chinese AK-47. The only difference is that one part of my MAK has a metal ridge at the end that prevents it firing like a machine gun. Grind the ridge away and it is fully automatic. I have no intention of doing such- I've fired fully automatic weapons, and I didn't thing much of them. The gun was jumping around so much that I thought it was ridiculous. Yes, you can tear a deer in two with an AK-47. Why would you want to? One shot provides a lot more venison sausage~

I've lived with guns since 1968. Yes, 1968: In that year my dad took me in the back yard and put a single-cock Daisy bb gun in my hands. I was probably about 3 feet tall, considering that I was TWO years old!

I've never been afraid of guns. I've ALWAS had a huge respect for guns! When I was 5 years old and my dad held me in his arms and explained that we were about to shoot the MONSTROUS...

".22"

I was really really scared! Dad held me , I aimed the huge gun... and then I pulled the trigger. There was a little "pow", as the .22 long rifle shell discharged.

You see, dad made a BIG point about all the guns. THESE are serious machines according to dad. I knew how to handle a gun when I was 5 years old.

What is odd about this? I grew up in Temperance, Michigan; nearly ALL the kids in my high school attended the "Hunter Safety" class that was offered in the junior high school. And it was a waste of time for nearly all of us! We all knew how to handle firearms.

N!



FACTS TO PONDER:
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician
is 0.171.
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of
Health Human Services.
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Now think about this:
Guns:
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S.
is
80,000,000.
(Yes, that's 80 million..)
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(B) The number of accidental gun deaths
per year, all age groups, is
1,500.
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(C) The number of accidental deaths
per gun owner is
.000188.
Statistics courtesy of FBI
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So, statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.
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Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'
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FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN,
BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.
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Please alert your friends
to this alarming threat.
We must ban doctors
before this gets completely out of hand!!!!!
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Out of concern for the public at large,
I have withheld the statistics on
lawyers for fear the shock would cause
people to panic and seek medical attention.


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