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- From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: Dressed for Rape
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:54:45 GMT
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- In article <hdg37#q@rpi.edu> vanetten@unix.cie.rpi.edu (John S. Van Etten) writes:
- >C. D. Tavares writes:
- >
- >[stuff deleted]
- >>Have you seen the modern NRA safety course curriculum? The entire
- >>discussion of safeties runs something like, "Some guns have safeties.
- >>Here's one that has a safety. Don't depend on them for anything.
- >>They have nothing to do with real gun safety." And then they are
- >>never referred to, identified, or used for the rest of the course.
- >
- >Wow. Hey, thanks for making me aware of this. I'll make a point of
- >*never* recommending an NRA-sponsored safety course to anyone again,
- >if this is true. :-(
-
- John! Hang on a minute; I think I've figured out your problem:
-
- You feel that safety is an important issue. That's good.
-
- Unfortunately, at the same time, you can't see that an important issue
- can also be simple.
-
- Relax.
-
- This obsession with mechanical safety devices is just a sname to complicate
- things and actually reduce overall safety.
-
- Awareness of what you're doing while handling firearms, and *concentration*
- on what you're doing is the key here. Problem is, it is simple. Maybe
- too simple?
-
-
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- | Some things are too important not to give away |
- | to everybody else and have none left for yourself. |
- |------------------------ Dieter the car salesman-----|
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