On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:22:32 +0000, Cynic
wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:44:26 -0000, "Ret." wrote:
>
>>> There speaks someone terrified of his neighbours
>
>>Indeed - as any sensible person would be. There are some neighbours I would
>>trust - and there are others I wouldn't. But even otherwise sensible and
>>well-balanced people are known to go off the rails at times of high stress
>>and anger.
>
>I have never *once* been attacked by an angry neighbour. ISTM that
>you must live in an exceptional area if it happens to you frequently
>enough to be of any concern whatsoever.
>
>I have lived in a country where almost *all* the men carried firearms
>routinely. There were plenty of pub brawls and neighbour disputes,
>but firearms were never used in such incidents.--
When I was growing up there were plenty of guns around. I only know
personally of two deaths caused by guns in my whole life. One was a
local doctor who shot himself with his .22 rifle when he got cancer
and the other was a cuckolded husband in the early 80s who shot his
rival with a shotgun. |