[email protected]

In a message dated 8/29/2002 9:04:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> Oh yikes! I guess it's ok to shoot someone just to scare them, just not to
> kill them . . . sigh.

President Bush was once arrested for stealing a christmas wreath from a store
when he was in college. Near my house, Pete Tavita Solomona, 47, was arrested
on Oct. 18, for the fatal shooting of Brandon Ketsdever, a 17-year-old.
Brandon and some friends had, as a prank, swiped a plastic Halloween
decoration from Solomona's front yard. Solomona's defense was that he was
just threatening the boys when he held the gun up to Brandon's head and that
he didn't mean to pull the trigger of his 357 magnum.

--pam



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Julie Stauffer

<<I don't think I'd wish to could on a young child registering the
difference in weight between a toy and the real thing>>

Have you ever held a real gun? There is no way NOT to register the
difference between a toy and the real thing. No one is advocating leaving
weapons lying around, but there is no way a child can think that a toy gun
and a real gun are the same. Doesn't mean a child might not play with a
real gun if he/she came across it...but they wouldn't confuse it with their
toy.

Julie--whose .357 is in her closet with a trigger lock and no ammo allowed
in the house