Cohousing-L Mailing List: guns-OT

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

> From: Matt Lawrence <matt [at] technoronin.com>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 15:30:34 -0500 (CDT)
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_Re: (cohousing) communities' decision making premises
> 
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Racheli Gai wrote:
> 
>> In the case of having guns on site, while it's not "foreseeable" that
>> someone might get harmed, it increases the liklihood that this might
>> happen. IMO it's also likely that someone who owns gun(s) has attitudes
>> about how to resolve conflicts which are quite far apart from my own's.
> 
> Ummm, how so?  I have no idea how you resolve conflicts, but most of my
> friends who own guns are far more rational and logical about resolving
> issues than the average person.
> 
> This is actually an important issue with me.  I would really like to
> understand why people are afraid of honest, law abiding people owning
> guns.
> 
> -- Matt

Plenty an honest, law-abiding citizen has come home to a child with his head
blown off. Gun owners can be many things, but stupidity is something that
gets people with guns in the house killed, whereas stupid people without
guns are less likely to die of gunshot wounds. Many people who get shot are
shot by a member of their own household.

A student of mine was in a funk this week, because her 80yo mother-in-law
was just killed by someone who thought he saw a coyote on his property.

And of all the men who have killed their wives and children, I think pretty
much 100% of them did it with guns.

I don't particularly want to get into a gun owning argument with anyone,
because it's not the sort of thing that people tend to change their minds
about. But if you think that somehow it makes no difference whether or not
you have a gun in your house as far as your long-term chances of survival,
you're dead wrong.

As for rational and logical, I think that's in the eye of the beholder. I
don't think it's in any way rational to own a gun. If most of your friends
who own guns are more rational than the ones who don't, it says more about
your opinion than about your friends.

To be fair, I guess I have started an argument. I am happy to take this
off-list if others don't think it's appropriate here. I won't post again.


-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California
tamgoddess [at] attbi.com

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