Re: The Right to Bear Wood

[kevin j hopp <khopp@garbersoft.net>]

no big argument here just another story.
Well, maybe a 'little' argument.

Back in high school one of my classmates was shot in the back and killed 
while running away from a crime. The crime: stealing a battery out of a 
car from what ended up being a retired cops residence. The cop was the 
one who shot him. The punishment: a slap on the wrist. I don't remember 
the case details on why that's all he got -- something about him still 
being on the cops property --  but he was unarmed and shot in the back 
for heaven's sake.
The lack of punishment is another thing altogether anyway, what I saw 
was the total irresponsibility and disregard of human life from someone 
most people would think would know better.
  I guess if there was an argument from this for me, it'd be that no 
matter how well trained a person is on the use of a gun or how 
responsible we think they are it all boils down to the moral culpability 
of the one using it, especially how they may act in the heat of the moment.
I'd be all for everyone having easy access to whatever kind of gun their 
little heart desired if the human race had a better track record of 
wielding power in a moral and responsible way.
 I wouldn't say outlaw them completely, as I wouldn't say outlaw gas 
ovens, jet propulsion technology or the internet because of the evils 
they've been put to, but it seems to me that sometimes in our efforts to 
protect gun access for all,  we start to idealize and romanticize and 
forget to stop and  take into account just how dark the human soul can 
become at times. And 'less anyone here gets 'up in arms' I'm just 
talking in general, not about any comments made on the list.
 Don't have any concrete idea's, I just think we need to 'always' take 
the human element into account well before we pass or don't pass laws, 
not just on guns, but on anything that has a capability of being used 
wrongly. That's all. I know quite a few will think this observation is 
obvious -- it should be -- but apparently those making laws aren't 
always very observant!

Kevin
  

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