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Keith B wrote:One of the tactics used by anti's on anything they are attacking is 'baiting'. Any way they get to you and entice you into calling names or telling them they are ignorant, ranting about their unrealistic view, etc. just helps fuel their fire. As Charles said, emails and printed letters can be used as ammo to try and help them support their views.

That is the point I was trying to make. Thank you for stating it more clearly than I did.

WarHawk-AVG wrote:Grow some common sense! Most importantly...quit being the SILENT majority..let these pinheads know..their rights STOP where my rights START!

Dude, I've got plenty of common sense. What part of my above posts agreed with that guy's position? Exactly none of it. And I haven't advocated silence. I even said I hope that he reads this thread. All I said was...

...Geeze. Never mind.

WarHawk-AVG wrote:I just emailed him telling him welcome to Texas where everything is bigger and then told him he needed to move back to Kalifornia..they already have a .50 cal ban there and he can be safe.

Now that was helpful...

I mean CMON people don't scream to ban sportsbikes or high performance cars when people get injured or killed by them!

Actually, some do - particularly in California (where I used to live). As I said, I completely disagree with his premise, but that's his wife that got hit (and nearly killed). I'd be mad as hell too if that were my wife. I'd just express it differently.

That's why I think a little understanding is called for here.

I feel for the guy. I really do. I think his reaction is wrong and misguided, but I understand it. My main question to him would be, "where do you draw the line?" What if that had been a .308 caliber bullet coming from 2.5 miles out? What if it had been a .357 coming from 1.5 miles out? Would he want to ban those too?

Nobody with a lick of sense would argue that the woman was hit by anything less than a negligent shooter. Of course she was. The distance she was shot from, and the size of the round isn't really what's at issue here. The real issue is that someone fired a round into the air without being absolutely certain of where it was going to come down. Again, I understand Mel Moss Jr's anger, but I think that he is being intellectually dishonest by blaming the problem on the caliber; because I could just as easily make the same argument he is using now to take away his home defense pistol. After all, what if he misses his target with that 9mm? It's got to come down somewhere. What if "somewhere" is the arm of an innocent victim just walking down the street? What if "somewhere" is the broken femur of a guy sitting in a rag top jeep, like the guy I actually worked on in the ER who was hit that way by a .45 hardball?

I actually hope that he reads this thread and changes his mind.