In response to a growing demand to limit my posts to small book size, I shall make a few points.

Gun nuts scare me. Ppl who share differing opinions do not. Unless that opinion is "Guns guns guns everywhere, how wonderful".


The running someone down with a car had nothing to do with the story, it was an unrelated hypothetical.

We are only just starting to get in-car cameras, which would help explain why colourful language is easier to get away with, and IMHO in context is perfectly acceptable.



So you do scare me. Ppl with an unshakable belief that a proliferation of guns is a good thing, who come up with the same lame excuse after lame excuse as to why they should own guns, when all evidence points elsewhere, scare me.

Being a police officer you should know everyone has their breaking point. Even "good" citizens can lose it. Giving them access to lethal force is a recipe for homicide.

How many domestics have you been to? Every second job right?

Man indicted in fatal shooting of boy
3/22/2006, 11:29 p.m. ET
The Associated Press

BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) — A retiree was charged Wednesday with fatally shooting a neighbor boy who walked on the man's well-kept lawn.

A grand jury indicted Charles Martin, 66, on one count of aggravated murder in the death of Larry Mugrage, 15. Martin faces life in prison if convicted.

Police said Mugrage was killed Sunday afternoon after he crossed onto Martin's yard. The youth was hit in the chest with a blast from a shotgun and was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Martin, who lived alone and had no criminal record, told a 911 dispatcher that the youth had been "making the other kids harass me and my place, tearing things up."

Martin told authorities he had had several disputes with neighbors about walking on his grass.

Court officials said Martin did not yet have an attorney.


Now I know what happened, what gets into the media and what plays out in court are often three separate things, but this is just the latest.

A guy shoots dead a kid because he walked on his lawn. Even if he was ripping it up with a chainsaw, shooting him???

And all his neighbours said he was a good guy.


So guns + ppl = disaster.

Guns are for killing. Get it?

No, you don't, obviously.


O, and that guy didn't just shoot him once. He shot him, then walked up to him while he was lying prone on the ground, and shot him point blank to finish him off.


If you can't see the problem with a world full of guns, with ppl always trying to legalise more and more powerful guns for more and more ppl with less and less checks and balances, then I think there is little point talking about it.