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> On Apr 18, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> > I'm still not convinced. Most weenies I've met are afraid of guns.
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> As "an urban weenie who hates the West" (Ace Cockburn to me, ca.
> 1999), I admit to being afraid of guns. I don't hate the West, though.
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> Doug
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It is funny you know. I grew up around American gun culture. My grand father was a cattle rancher out of California. He had everything from trail riffles to a 12.7mm cal ripped out of an A26 (his plane WWII). I shot small call rifles as a kid and have shot my friend's semi-auto big cal hand guns. Guns do not make me uncomfortable.
What does make me uncomfortable though is the thought of every asshole, including myself carrying one around a concealed hand-gun. I come from a place with one of the highest hand-gun deaths per capita in Canada (not Toronto) and I must say most incidents would not have ended in death save for easy access to hand guns.
Travis