Kerryn Offord wrote in
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Tank Fixer wrote:

In article ,
on Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:54:45 +1200,
Kerryn Offord attempted to say .....


This only applies to convicted felons.. nothing to stop someone who
has never been convicted from legally owning and carrying a firearm
in the course of his 'employment'... there might be problems if he is
caught in the act while armed... but maybe he shoots his way free and
continue as a non felon.



If someone wants to kill you what makes you think they have to have a
gun to do it ?


No reason, but in this thread its been suggested that the guy breaking
into your house is illegally carrying a weapon.....


Or he could pick up some item from your home to use as a weapon.
Even his bare hands can kill.
Or worse,you could be crippled,paralyzed from the neck down.


Probably more people die from application of a blunt instrument than
die from firearms (lets restrict this to individual cases of murder,
not the rampages such as Rwanda... where machetes find a niche)





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Jim Yanik
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