Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don You will note that I said "ALMOST" , not all! Jerry "Don R." wrote: > Jerry, > > There is at least one LUG website member who is a life-long conservative, > life time NRA member and very, very pro-gun. > > If there were no guns and people who knew how to use them, these tea sippers > would be speaking Nazi, or Russian. Had there been four pistols with one > each in the hands of the pilots, 9/11 would not have happened. However, that > might have been a bad thing because there would not have been any disaster > scenes for the tea-sipper clickers to photograph. > > When the crooks start running off with the Englishman's Leica's because an > owner in the UK protecting his property gets in more trouble than the crook, > then these illiberals will start thinking it might be nice to live somewhere > that allows one to protect his/her property and family. > > Don > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jerry Lehrer" <jerryleh@pacbell.net> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:40 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] re: gun balderdash & photos > > > Al > > > > ALL the foregoing is what I have come to expect from the > > members of the LUG. Anti-gun, almost, to a man/ woman. > > > > Jerry > > NRA Life member (but still a liberal) > > > > Alastair Firkin wrote: > > > > > boy, you yanks love your cookies ;-) > > > > > > On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 11:50 Australia/Melbourne, Kyle Cassidy > > > wrote: > > > > > > > i managed to snap this photo saturday night after my friend nicki > > > > (www.nickijaine.com) accidentally shot my friend paul > > > > (www.carfaxabbey.com) > > > > when he was trying to swipe a cookie for her. it was all just > > > > horseplay but > > > > the gun went off (eh, go figure). (lugger colin voze > > > > (www.availabledark.com) > > > > was there too.) the wound looks ghastly, but he was actually okay. the > > > > enterance wound is actually _really_ small. it looks a whole lot worse > > > > than > > > > it actually is. > > > > > > > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1724325 > > > > > > > > what people seem to have a hard time grasping is that americans are > > > > armed > > > > because the rest of the world belongs to us. we need to stay armed to > > > > protect you from yourselves. (imagine an armed norway with no armed > > > > america, > > > > imagine an armed micronesia with no armed america....) ocassionally > > > > there > > > > are mishaps (like nicki shooting paul when she didn't mean to). BUT an > > > > armed > > > > america means a safer world for the rest of you second and third world > > > > countries. dont you forget it. > > > > > > > > kc > > > > > > > > (ps: expecting to see praise and thanksgiving from all the LUG > > > > foreigners, > > > > we keep your shores safe, i need NOT remind you) > > > > > > > > p.p.s.: i'd thought she shot him with a 50 cal desert eagle, but on > > > > looking > > > > at the photo, it was probably one of the smaller cal desert eagles's > > > > with > > > > the higher mag capacity -- some expert on the lug, i'm deferring to > > > > you) > > > > -- > > > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > > > > > > Alastair > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html