Re: Not always joking, it seems

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:07:02 -0500, mike weber <fairportfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:01:47 -0800 (PST), "louann_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"
><louann_m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>On Feb 18, 12:16 am, mike weber <fairport...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:30:34 -0800, John Schilling
>>>
>>> <schil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> >Is this truly how you expect you would react yourself, if for
whatever
>>> >reason you happened to be carrying a gun?

>>> >You'd shoot into a crowd, in the general direction of a villain, even
>>> >as other armed men and women have a clear field of fire to engage him
>>> >without risk to bystanders?  And then shoot any armed man who came to
>>> >the scene of the crime, on the grounds that he might be in cahoots
with
>>> >the original villain?  Or, if you weren't there from the start, you'd
>>> >respond to the sound of gunfire by rushing in and shooting every
armed
>>> >man you saw?

>>> Again - cionsider the "assassination" of Huey Long.

>>(one visit to http://www.hueylong.com/life-times/assassination.php
>>later)

>>Why the scare quotes? If a political figure gets killed for his
>>political opinions, assassination is the standard term. Some people
>>even use it for Lennon.

>There is reason to doubt whether the "assassin" actually killed Long,
>since his bodyguards cut loose with .45s and appear to have hit him at
>least once or tweic; as i remarked above, Weiss had something like a
>.32 revolver, a weapon slightly more dealy than a .25 calibre beadroom
>gun.

Which you may note is .03 calibers greater than one of the more common,
and successful, assassination weapons.


>Between .45s and a .32, i know which i'd pick as probable cause of
>death.

Well, yeah.  Whichever one was aimed by an assassin, rather than hit by
dumb luck.

The lethality of pistol bullets, or more commonly the lack thereof, has
*far* more to do with where the bullet hits, than with how big a bullet
it is.  


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