On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 08:23:58 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 20/12/2014 20:48, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> Or hunting. How can you say that you need a machine gun to hunt.
>>> Unless
>>> >you are hunting mince or ground meat.
>> I still like Robin Williams' (I think it was) suggestion that we should
>> give Bambi some serious firepower to even out the odds.
>>
>>
> A truly, American solution. :-P

But of course.  Every red-blooded American knows that the way you put a 
fire out is by adding more gasoline.  ;)

>>> >Is that not the reason given by the pro gun lobby?
>>> >The black hats won't know which white hat is carrying.
>> It's one of several excuses, yeah.
>>
>>
> LOL You sound rightly P'd off with that one.

You think? ;)

>>> >Easy peasy, shoot everyone who is carrying a gun. By definition they
>>> >are criminals. And since guns are designed to kill not incapacitate I
>>> >am sure that they won't mind having done to them what they intend to
>>> >do to others.
>> Ah, but you can't shoot everyone who's carrying a gun without carrying
>> a gun.;)
>>
>>
> Use automatic gun detectors in all public places.

Automatic gun detectors with their own firepower?  Have you not seen 
Terminator? ;)

>>> >Unless they are wearing a bandoleer of throwing knifes.;-)
>> I don't know anyone who can throw as many knives as fast as even a non-
>> automatic weapon, much less a semi- or fully automatic weapon.
>>
>>
> I have been straining my mind to remember the comic charterer, who could
> have done that.

The Knifekateer.  (A common character in the comic strip "Basic 
Instructions" - http://basicinstructions.net/)

Then again, the superheroes in that comic, when they appear, aren't that 
"super", so it seems that the Knifekateer wouldn't be able to manage 
it. ;)

>> I don't have a gun, but I know how to use a number of different
>> varieties because of him.
>>
>> The closest I get to guns these days, though, is playing Borderlands.;)
> 
> The way to go. :-)
> 
> The last time I fired a gun was at a rifle club's open day about 45
> years ago. I am left eyed dominant and right handed so no use at that.

I've got pretty good aim, or used to - though the second time skeet 
shooting, I didn't do so well.  It helps to hold the shotgun tight in 
your *shoulder*, not your upper arm.  Doing the latter will give you a 
very sore arm, and you won't be able to hit *anything* you intend to.

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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