> Handguns are for sport or for hurting people for sport.
That's simply not true. Handguns fill a very large and (often effective) niche in the self-defense realm. If that weren't true, you wouldn't see cops carrying them. This generalization is bunk.
> There were about 3 weeks in 1970 when I very much wished I owned a
> shotgun.
Imagine that: your urge to use a weapon for self-defense. Whodathunk?
/jordan