Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/24/2006 7:32:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time, tedgrant@shaw.ca writes: one day the city police asked for people to turn in any guns for destruction without any questions asked. ------------------- Probably a window into the difference between Canadians and "Mercans." The guns I own are all a legacy from my father. I've never fired them. I once owned a German P-38, and later, a PPK-S. I fired both of those, but i has been more than 25 years ago. So I figured what the heck get rid of it as I had no need for it and saw absolutely no reason to keep it in the house with 4 adventuresome kids who may "play with it and hurt or kill some body!" ------- I took my boys and their Grandfather's rifle and shotgun to the local gun range, where they learned to shoot safely. Both have their Marksmen Merit Badges from Boy Scouts and neither owns a gun. Our guns reside in a deep closet. I learned gun safety some fifty years ago, so I am not uncomfortable with owning guns, nor am I worried that my boys will play with guns. We all have no curiosity over firearms, though they are readily available, We know they are not playthings, and since we are not hunters, the guns are not tools we need to use. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish