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Re: GUNS was Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] PSUB Fatalities...View Ports...Shatterproof
wow - Jon! I would love to take that course. And I agree with you. NO
EXCUSE fro shooting what you don't/can't identify. In wisconsin last year,
some yokel shot a horse dead while someone was RIDING it. Said he thought it
was a deer. Strong argument against inbreeding...
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Hylands" <hylands@ibm.net>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: GUNS was Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] PSUB Fatalities...View
Ports...Shatterproof
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:26:35 +1300, "Karl & Shirin Fuller"
> <fullerk@voyager.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > only the first letter of the words 'Dad it's me' reach
> > your ears before they are drowned out by the bast of sound form your
gun.
>
> And that is where the guy holding the gun screwed up. You NEVER NEVER
NEVER
> shoot at something you can't identify.
>
> I was at Thunder Ranch last summer, taking Defensive Handgun (awesome
> course), and when you go through the Terminator shooting house, you very
> quickly learn to positively identify your target, and the fact that they
> are carrying a weapon. Many of the targets are carrying things that
> resemble weapons, like a drill, but you can't shoot them.
>
> For night work, you use a flashlight in one hand, and the gun in the
other,
> Having tritium sights helps too...
>
> I'm kind of sad to say this, but anyone who shoots a shadow in their house
> thinking it is an intruder without positively identification deserves what
> they get...
>
> Later,
> Jon
>
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>
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