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| Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: Mar 30 12:18PM -0400 On 2023-03-30 11:57 a.m., S Viemeister wrote: > A major difference between guns, and rapiers, epees, and sabers, is that > a gun can kill from a distance. An automatic can kill a large number of > people from a distance. Automatics are illegal in most places. While they can kill a number of people from a distance, most shootings are close up. > effort and skill than just squeezing a trigger - as evidenced by > children who get hold of a gun and accidentally (or sometimes on > purpose) pull the trigger and kill or injure someone. True, but there is still the argument about their only purpose being to kill. Target shooting and hunting are still legitimate recreational activities and require some degree of skill, especially handguns. They can be used for hunting for food. Swords OTOH, have no other function. You can't hunt with them and they cannot be used as a target sport. AFAIAC, anyone who commits murder with a firearm should be subject to capital punishment. I am not a fan of subjecting legally licensed law abiding gun owners to ridiculous restrictions and outright bans because criminals who are already violating multiple gun control regulations are using them to commit crimes and to murder. > I used to be pretty good with a saber. It's not really a suitable weapon > for mass killing. If you were good with a sabre you could do a number on a crowd of people. A group of people armed with sabres could be pretty savage. They used to be used quite effectively in warfare when firearms were a single shot deal. |
| Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid>: Mar 31 03:26AM +1100 On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:18:00 -0400, Dave Smith >activities and require some degree of skill, especially handguns. They >can be used for hunting for food. Swords OTOH, have no other function. >You can't hunt with them and they cannot be used as a target sport. A hunter is a borderline psychopath, at least. (...) >people. A group of people armed with sabres could be pretty savage. >They used to be used quite effectively in warfare when firearms were a >single shot deal. Very far-fetched. |
| Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>: Mar 30 06:26PM > A major difference between guns, and rapiers, epees, and sabers, is that > a gun can kill from a distance. An automatic can kill a large number of > people from a distance. Semi-automatic. There have been no mass murders with a legally obtained, fully automatic weapon in the U.S. since the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. (That might be a slight exaggeration.) It's expensive to get a license for a fully automatic weapon. Most mass murderers are not organized enough to do so. Two principal laws regulate fully automatic weapons: The National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Firearm Owner's Protection Act of 1986. -- Cindy Hamilton |
| Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>: Mar 30 06:27PM > The sole purpose of a gun is to kill. > The sole purpose of a handgun is to kill people. The purpose of my husband's handguns and long guns is to shoot at paper targets. -- Cindy Hamilton |
| Janet <nobody@home.com>: Mar 30 07:45PM +0100 In article <ebab2ihleof0jfmdccm43rltn8th62lmgg@4ax.com>, lucretia@florence.it says... > > I also knew the shooter. > > Janet UK > Very curious, did you ever think of him doing such a thing? Not at all. He was just an oddball loner, unremarkable in a rural area with many oddballs. Janet. |
| Janet <nobody@home.com>: Mar 30 08:08PM +0100 In article <SEgVL.1194263$MVg8.657260@fx12.iad>, adavid.smith@sympatico.ca says... > ban on handguns as some sort of standard to aim for. It is true that > there have been no more handgun rampages at Scottish schools since then. > There had been none before that one incident. That is a meme beloved of the gun lobby in USA. It totally ignores the fact that this was the second mass shooting in a few years , after Hungerford. The Hungerford killer used semi automatic rifles to kill random people including children before entering a school where he killed himself. Hungerford resulted in the Firearms Act 1988,semi- automatic and pump-action rifles and shotguns were banned, except those chambered for .22 ammunition. Because of that ban, the Dunblane killer used handguns, which were still legally available under license. The British public was sickened by another mass shooting, that was the reason for the handgun ban. Janet UK |
| Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid>: Mar 31 06:48AM +1100 On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:27:04 GMT, Cindy Hamilton >> The sole purpose of a handgun is to kill people. >The purpose of my husband's handguns and long guns is to shoot at paper >targets. That's simulated killing. |
| dsi1 <dsi123@hawaiiantel.net>: Mar 30 11:57AM -0700 On Wednesday, March 29, 2023 at 9:44:35 AM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote: > recipe called for 1/4 cup of brown sugar. The first few times I made it > I used a tablespoon. When I made it this week I cut it back to a pinch. > It was much better. I made some Thai curry last night. I gave it a taste and it was a little harsh. A bit of sugar fixed that. ' https://photos.app.goo.gl/FUWY3Acu5QCF3T8Q9 |
| dsi1 <dsi123@hawaiiantel.net>: Mar 30 10:37AM -0700 On Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 4:58:57 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote: > > too far. > Windows 11 is fine. Windows 11-S is the one to watch for. Seems mostly > on the lower end computers. Windows in S mode will run pretty good and fast on a low end computer because it's not Windows. You won't be able to run any of your old Windows desktop client programs. You're pretty much stuck with using Google Groups. That would be a deal breaker for a lot of rfc'ers. The only reason to stick with real Windows is that you need to run your old Windows programs. Otherwise, you're better off using Windows S mode and running apps from the Microsoft Store. Microsoft tried this before with Windows RT in 2011. They discontinued it after a couple of years. My guess is that's what's going to happen with Windows S. Windows S will probably still be unpopular with Windows users even though it's what Microsoft needs to bring their OS for the modern era. |
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