> -=> ernie wrote to David Drummond <=-
> 
>    >  DC> 1. Sport/target shooting.  Challenging and fun.
>  
>  DD> Shooting at innocent chunks of clay hurled into the air is challenging
>  DD> and fun? How about you are the chunks of clay and see how challenging
>  DD> and fun that it.
> 
>  er> OK, let me start with I'm for gun control.
> 
> Why?  Has it been proven to work?  Like in Chicago?
> 
>  er> (No one really needs an AR-15 unless you're in a war trying to
>  er> kill lots of people.)
> 
> Well, that's your opinion, anyway.  Pretty hard to define "need" 
> sometimes.  Quite easy to define a Constitutional right, though.
> 
> By the way, AR-15's are not used in war.  By anybody.

Ah, but they were.  I carried one (but didn't fire it) when I was at Da
Nang in 1965.