Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> Ed Hulett -> Joe Bruchis wrote:
 EH>> Joe Bruchis -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 JB>>> Ed Hulett wrote in a message to Sean Dennis:

 EH>>>> I read an article that said .223 ammo is virtually
non-existent in
 EH>>>> the private sector. They are even having trouble finding jacketed
 EH>>>> lead for reloading.

 JB>>> Many have recognized, the first step to abolishing guns is to abolish
 JB>>> ammo. This is true. All legal ammo for hand guns is becoming
 MG> harder to
 JB>>> find and much more expensinve. The "survivalists"
have a rule of
 MG> thumb
 JB>>> stating one should have at least 1000 rounds of ammo for
the "day"
 EH>> that
 JB>>> is on the horizon, when it will be needed. Most of them bought and
 JB>>> stored their ammo already. It is we that will have the problem.  We
 JB>>> won't find ammo anywhere, in the next five years or so. That will
 EH>> render
 JB>>> our hand guns useless. So, no new guns will be sold and old guns
 EH>> will be
 JB>>> empty.  What a sweet plan.

 EH>> A few years back I read an article that outlined just that plan - that
 EH>> if they couldn't go after the guns directly, they would make it more
 EH>> difficult to obtain the ammunition rendering the guns useless.

 MG> I have, on occasion, joked about you can have all the guns if I keep all
 MG> the ammo. I hope all of you know that I'm just joking when I say that.

I know you are joking. I think everyone else does too.

 MG> There are some people who should not be allowed to own guns, but you
 MG> don't have a mental illness that makes you a danger to yourself or the
 MG> public nor are you an ex con whose parole is contingent on you not
 MG> having one.

Those who have guns illegally would have them illegally even with tighter
gun control laws. There are 20,000 gun laws on the books already and if
those laws can't keep guns out of the wrong hands, making it harder for
law-abiding citizens to obtain guns won't help in the least.

That's a bit of knowledge the gun-grabbers just can't figure out.

 MG> *I* should not own a gun. Most of the time I'm perfectly
 MG> fine, but those occasional Eleanor Rigby days could, if I thought it
 MG> would be quick, be disastrous for me to have.  :)

In today's society you don't know who has an illegal gun and who doesn't.
Those who do have no respect for the lives of others anyway.

 MG> PS: while I occasionally think about it, I'm too big a coward to
 MG> actually follow through with it, so worry not.

Heh heh... I have many friends who do carry and many who don't and I would
task anyone to tell them all apart.

Ed

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