Subj : Re: Anyone out there have any?
To   : Derision
From : Lizard King
Date : Mon Oct 22 2018 23:12:45

  Re: Re: Anyone out there have any?
  By: Derision to Nightfox on Mon Oct 22 2018 21:28:23

 > I remember a case over in New Jersey -- which has some of the strictest gun
 > laws in the observable universe -- in which somebody broke into someone
 > else's house and attacked the owner, an elderly man. The elderly man's son
 > grabbed his dad's gun and defended his dad and himself, and shot the
 > attacker.
 >
 > I don't remember if the attacker was killed or just injured, but I do know
 > that the son was arrested for posession and use of a firearm that was not
 > licensed to him (it was licensed to his father, who was too busy being
 > beaten to use it at the time).

I hope that ended up being thrown out, but I'm not very surprised.  I grew up
in a state (NY) with similar gun laws.  At the time I moved, around 2000 people
a year were being murdered in New York City, mostly with pistols.  Regular
people were not allowed to own guns, but criminals seemed to have no problem
finding them.  That's usually how that works out.

You'd never know it from listening to the news, but firearms-related violence
has decreased by about 50% since the 1990s, while at the same time (this part
they report on accurately) gun laws have loosened somewhat across most of the
country.

//lizard_king

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